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of all instruments and pieces of glassware inspected and marked^ 

 and for whom each article or lot was inspected and marked. 



Sect. 4. Any person who tests milk or cream by the Babcock test^ 

 or any other test, whether mechanical or chemical, for the purpose 

 of measuring the contents of butter fats or solids when sold as milk 

 or as a basis for apportioning its value when used at creameries or 

 factories, without first having obtained a certificate of competency 

 in the manner previously named in this act, or who tests milk or 

 cream to determine or apportion its value with appliances that have 

 not been inspected and marked by the authorities herein named, 

 shall be liable to a fine of not less than five dollars for each week 

 that he or she serves or that such unmarked and untested, appliances^ 

 have been used. 



Sect. 5. This act shall take effect July 1, 1901. 



[Approved, March 22, 1901.] 



IN CONCLUSION 



1. The Babcock test should be used on 

 every farm where cows are kept. 



2. The milk of each cow should be 

 weighed and recorded morning und night. 



3. At least one composite sample of 

 milk should be taken and tested ever}' 

 mouth the cow is in milk. Skim milk and 

 butter milk should be tested frequentl3\ 



4. The Babcock test and scales for 

 weighing milk (Fig. 18) enable a farmer 

 to place the management of his herd on a 

 business basis. It reduces the business 

 to a system. Lack of system drives the 

 boys from the farm. 



5. The station will gladly cooperate 

 with any dairy farmer who desires further- 

 information regarding the test, and when- 

 ever six or more farmers in any locality 

 in tlie state so desire the station stands- 

 ready to send a man to further discuss its 

 merits and demonstrate, in a practical 

 way, the benefits which will follow^ the in- 

 troduction of the test system in the man- 

 Fig. 18. agement of the dairy herd. 



