Circular No. 33. Superseding No. 24. April, 1912 



MASSACHOSEnS AGRICULTORAL EXPERIMENT STATION 



Department of Plant and Animal Chemistry^ 

 J. B. LINDSEY, Chemist. 



CONTENTS. 



I. An Act to regulate the use of utensils for testing the composi- 

 tion or value of milk and cream. 

 II. Salient Points in the Act. 

 III. Suggestions for making the Babcock test. 



I. An Act to regulate the use of utensils for testing the 



COMPOSITION OR VALUE OF .MILK AND CREAM.' 



Be it enacted, etc., as folloius : 



Section i. No bottle, pipette, or other meas- 

 Glassware must be uring glass or utensil shall be used in this 

 tested for accuracy, commonwealth by any inspector of milk or 

 and so marked, cream, or by any person in any milk inspection 

 laboratory, in determining, by the Babcock or 

 other centrifugal machine, the composition of milk or cream for the 

 purposes of inspection; or by any person in any milk depot, cream- 

 ery, cheese factory, condensed milk factory or other place in deter- 

 mining, by the Babcock or other centrifugal machine, the composi- 

 tion or value of milk or cream as a basis for payment in buying or 

 selling, until it has been tested for accuracy and verified by the direc- 

 tor of the Massachusetts agricultural experiment station, or by his 

 duly designated deputy or deputies. Every such bottle, pipette, or 

 other measuring glass or utensil shall be submitted to the said direc- 

 tor by the owner or user thereof, to be tested for accuracy before the 

 same is used in this commonwealth for the purposes aforesaid. The 

 owner or user shall pay to the said director for the use of the said 

 station as a fee for making the test, a sum not exceeding five cents 

 for each bottle, pipette, or other measuring glass or utensil tested, 



' Chapter 218, Acts and Resolves of Massachusetts for 1912. 



