38 MAINE AGRICUI^TURAI, E^XPERIM^NT STATION. I9IO. 



Gray's Market, Main Street. 



Kineo, 5 lbs. averaged .6 oz. short with carton. 

 L. Alford, Main Street. 



Handles only dairy butter. 

 Saulsbury's Market, A. D. Saulsbury, Main Street. 



Handles mostly Kineo but had none in stock. Said that they 

 weigh the lots as received. Last lot they had was up to 

 weight; one before was considerably short. 

 Sawyer &. Rand, Main Street. 



Yorkshire. Up to weight. 

 Old Town Supply Co., C. J. McLeod, Main Street. 



From Corinth Creamery, bought of Russell Bros., Bangor. 

 Up to weight. 



Yorkshire. Up to weight. 



Five pounds of the Kineo Butter made by the Maine Cream- 

 ery Association of Bangor was purchased at Lunt's Cash Mar- 

 ket. These were entered as No. 8669 and weighed without the 

 cartons but with the parchment paper 4.54 pounds. 



A hearing was appointed which developed that the manager 

 of the Alaine Creamery Association had been absent for three 

 months ; that before going away he purchased a set of high 

 grade scales and instructed his butter maker to frequently 

 vv^eigh their output so as to make sure that it was full weight. 

 To this the butter maker also makes affidavit. On investi- 

 gation, however, they find that one of the several blocks of the 

 power print was short and this had escaped their observation.- 

 The affidavits were accepted and the case not prosecuted. 



WHAT IS CIDER VINEGAR ? 



According to the standard, vinegar without a qualifying 

 word, in Maine, always means Apple Cider Vinegar. It must 

 be made exclusively from undiluted apple juice and must be 

 sufficiently well fermented so that it shall contain not less than 

 4 per cent by weight of acetic acid. Based upon the exami- 

 nation of large numbers of samples of pure vinegar the stand- 

 ard also states that a cider vinegar shall : — 



Deflect polarized light to the left; contain not less than 1.6 

 per cent apple solids; not more than half of the apple solids 

 shall be reducing sugars ; contain not less than .25 per cent of 



