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CREAMERY GLASSWARE. 



Requirements of tlu; Laz^'. The law requires that all glass- 

 ware used in creameries for the determination of butter fat shall 

 be tested for accuracy by the Director of the Maine Agricultural 

 Experiment Station. In practice this regulates the sale as for 

 the most part the glassware is tested before it is sold to the 

 creameries. It is not the duty of the Director of the Station to 

 see that creameries and dealers comply with the requirements of 

 this law. 



Chapter 39, Revised Statutes. 



Sec. 12. All bottles, pipettes or other measuring glasses used by any 

 person, firm or corporation, or their agents or employes, at any cream- 

 ery, butter factory, cheese factory, condensed milk factory or elsewhere 

 in this state, in determining by the Babcock test, or any other test, the 

 value of milk or cream received from different persons at such cream- 

 eries or factories, shall be tested before such use, for accuracy of meas- 

 urement and for accuracy of the per cent scale marked thereon. Such 

 bottles, pipettes or measuring glasses shall bear in marks or characters 

 ineffaceable the evidence that such test has been made by the authority 

 named in the following section. Xo inaccurate bottles, pipettes or other 

 glasses shall bear such marks or characters. 



Sec. 13. The director of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 or some competent person designated by him, shall test the accuracy 

 of all bottles, pipettes or other measuring glasses used by persons, 

 firms or corporations in the state buying or pooling milk or cream, or 

 apportioning butter or cheese, made from the same, by the contents of 

 butter far contained therein. The said director, or the person desig- 

 nated by him, shall mark such bottles, pipettes or other measuring 

 glasses as are found correct, with marks or characters which cannot be 

 erased, and which marks or characters shall stand as proof that they 

 have been so tested. The said director shall receive for swch service 

 no more than the actual cost incurred, which shall be paid by the per- 

 sons or corporations for whom it is done. 



