120 EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



The Dairy Law {Acts and Resolves for 1912, Cliajjter 218). 



This act as originally passed in 1901 required that all persons 

 using the Babcock test as a basis of payment for milk or cream, 

 either in buying or selling, must secure a certificate of pro- 

 ficiency from the experiment station. It also required that 

 Babcock machines be inspected by an experiment station official 

 annually, and that all glassware bo tested for accuracy by the 

 station. The act was amended in 1909 (chapter 425, x\cts and 

 Resolves for 1909), giving to the director of the experiment 

 station the authority to revoke the certificate of an operator 

 found to be using dirty or untested glassware or doing the work 

 in an improper manner. 



A redraft of the entire law made to include milk inspectors 

 was presented to and passed by the Legislature of 1912, the full 

 text of which follows : — 



An Act to regulate the Use of Utensils for testing the Com- 

 position OR Value of Milk and Cream.* 



Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1. No bottle, pipette, or other measuring glass or utensil 

 shall be used in this commonwealth by any inspector of milk or 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, creamery, cheese factory, condensed milk factoi-y or other place 

 in determining, by the Baljcock or other centrifugal machine, the com- 

 position 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 director 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. Any bottle, pipette, 

 or other measuring glass or .utensil that has been tested and verified as 

 aforesaid shall be marked by the director or by his said deputy or depu- 

 ties to indicate the fact, or if tested and found to be inaccurate may be 

 marked by him or them to indicate that it is inaccurate. No bottle, 



» Chapter 218, Acta and Resolves of 1912, 



