104 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



THE LAW REGULATING THE USE OF THE 

 BABCOCK TEST. 



Eight years ago the Legislature passed "An Act for the pro- 

 tection of Dairymen" which has been very generally conformed 

 to by the creameries of the State. No funds were appropriated 

 for the enforcement of the law but under section four any one 

 can enter complaint to any inspector of milk, sheriff, deputy 

 sheriff or constable for violation of any part of the law. The 

 fine varies from ten to one hundred dollars and on conviction 

 one-half goes to the complainant. It is therefore in the power 

 of every patron of a creamery to see that the glassware has been 

 properly tested, that acid of proper strength is used in the test 

 and that the person making the test has a certificate of com- 

 petency. All the glassware tested by this Station has the letters 

 M. A. E. S. etched on so that thpy are plainly visible and cannot 

 wear off. A complaint has recently been received that one 

 creamery is not using glassware tested by the Station. The 

 case has been investigated and the creamery is now using prop- 

 erly tested glassware. As it has been several years since the 

 law has been printed in a Station publication it is here given in 

 full. 



CHAS. D. WOODS. 



Chapter 169 of the Acts of 1895. 

 An Act for the Protection of Dairymen. 

 Section i. All bottles pipettes or other measuring glasses 

 used by any person, firm or corporation, or their agents or 

 employes, at any creamery, butter factory, cheese factory or con- 

 densed milk factory, or elsewhere in this State, in determining 

 by the Babcock test, or by any other test, the value of milk or 

 cream received from different persons or parties at such cream- 

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



