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III. REPORT OF DOCTORS WALLER AND O'CONNOR ON THE COWS 

 OF THE MULFORD FARM. 



NOTE. Samples of low gravity milk from this farm were in- 

 troduced by the defence to prove that genuine, unadulterated 

 milk, from healthy, well-fed cows sometimes shows a specific 

 gravity below 1.029 (100 on the lactometer), the standard used 

 by the Board of Health, and others, as the minimum gravity of 

 pure milk. 



W. DE F. DAY, M.D., Sanitary Superintendent. 



SIR : We have the honor to report that, at the request of the 

 President of the Board of Health, we visited the farm of Mi- 

 Charles Mulford, in the neighborhood of Guymard, Orange Co., 

 N.Y., about 80 miles from New York. We reached there on the 

 afternoon of Saturday, December 23d, 1876, and were present 

 at the evening's milking. 



His herd consists of some 22 cows, of which but four were at 

 that time regular milkers ; eight were " strippers," or cows that 

 were nearly dried up, and the rest were dry. Only the regula- 

 milkers were milked that evening. 



Evening milking " milkers / " milked twice a day: 



The cow Charley was stated to be half Ayrshire ; all the others 

 were of the common breed. 



That evening, after all had retired, Mr. T. C. Doremus and his 

 friend, Mr. Hoot, arrived, and the next morning (Dec. 24th) the 

 cows were milked in our presence, and the milk tested with the 

 lactometer, both by the above-named gentlemen and by ourselves 

 The results were as follows : 



