Circular No. 24. September, 1909. 



MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION 



DEPARTMENT OF PLANT AND ANIMAL CHEMISTRY. 



J. B. LINDSEY, Chemist. 



CONTENTS. 



1. An Act to Provide for the Protection of Dairymen. 



2. Tlie Babcock Test. 



I. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE PROTECTION OF 



DAIRYMEN.' 



Be it enacted, etc., as follows : 



Section i. All bottles, pipettes or other measuring glasses used 

 by any person, firm or corporation, or by any employee or agent 

 thereof, at any creamery, cheese factory, condensed milk factory, 

 milk depot, or other place, in this state, in determining by the Bab- 

 cock test, or by any other test, the value of milk or cream received 

 from different persons or associations at such creameries, factories 

 or milk depots as a basis of payment for such milk or cream, shall 

 before use be tested for accuracy. Such bottles, pipettes, or meas- 

 uring glasses shall bear in ineffaceable marks or characters the evi- 

 dence that such test has been made by the authority named in sec- 

 tion two of this act. No inaccurate bottles, pipettes or glasses shall 

 bear such marks or characters, but when found inaccurate shall be 

 marked " Bad." 



Sec. 2. It is hereby made the duty of the director of the Massa- 

 chusetts* Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege, or of some competent person designated by him, to test all bot- 

 tles, pipettes or other measuring glasses, as required by section one 

 of this act. The director of the experiment station shall receive for 

 such service the amount of the actual cost incurred, and no more, 



■ Chapter 202, Acts and Resolves of Massachusetts for iqoi. 



^Massachusetts substituted for Hatch. See Chapter 66, Acts and Resolves of Massachu- 

 setts for 1907. 



