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added unless yon have some standard? You must settle in the 

 first place how much water ought to be in milk, or analysis will 

 not tell you what has been added. Here is where the defence 

 have made their real and their principal issue. Their attack is 

 not on the lactometer; they can no more meet it than the bull 

 can meet the locomotive ; they can no more meet it than you 

 can meet any well ascertained fact. The lactometer has been 

 described to you by the learned witness for the defence, in his 

 graphic style, as beginning with Archimedes. It is not neces- 

 sary to prove that ; it has been admitted in court that it deter- 

 mines specific gravity, and analysis will do no more. It is upon 

 this question of a standard that we have to meet them. This is 

 the real thing at which they aim. You cannot tell, they say, 

 but that this was honest milk, because there is no standard. 

 Then we asked the defence, what is your standard ? They answer 

 it ranges from 80 to 130. We asked, can you fix it no closer? 

 " No." How do you know that ? " By experience." Their pro- 

 fessor made personally twelve observations, and of these seven 

 were against him, and five for him, and the most distinguished 

 of those observations was on the now famous quadruped, which 

 seems to be the peculiar property of the scientific family on the 

 side of the defense. I think I would be justified in calling that 

 tribe of milk cows the "Doremus Cows," and the most distin- 

 guished of that family is the mother, perhaps, the so-called 

 "Bob-tailed .Cow." We have found her sister nearly related to 

 her in this case. Her milk is produced by the youthful knight 

 errant of the professor's family, who searches " the County of 

 Orange, with its creameries and its rich pastures," to quote his 

 own lan<ma'e and goes straight to the Mulford Farm. You 



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will remember the learned professor's description of the golden 

 crown of Hiero, which Archimedes tested, exclaiming, "Eu- 

 reka!" "Eureka!'' So you will remember how this youthful 

 scion of that scientific house returned from " the creameries 

 of Orange" with "the sample of low gravity milk," that he 

 had been sent for, and may imagine him exclaiming, "Eureka! 

 I have found it, the low gravity milk, the black cow." And 

 the anxious father says, " Have you heard anything of the 



