ACT FOR the: protection OF DAIRYMEN. IO5 



of measurement 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 section two of this 

 act. And no inaccurate bottles, pipettes or other glasses shall 

 bear such marks or characters. 



Sect. 2. It is hereby made the duty of the Director of the 

 Maine Agricultural^ Experiment Station, or other competent 

 person designated by him, to test the accuracy of all bottles, 

 pipettes or other measuring glasses used by persons, firms or 

 corporations in this State buying or pooling milk or cream, or 

 apportioning butter or cheese made from the same, by the con- 

 tents of butter fat contained therein. The Director of the 

 Experiment Station or the person designated by him, shall mark 

 such bottles, pipettes or other measuring glasses as are found 

 correct, in marks or characters which cannot be erased, and 

 which marks or characters shall stand as proof that they have 

 been so tested. The Director of the Experiment Station shall 

 receive for such service the actual cost incurred, and no more, 

 the same to be paid by the persons or corporations for whom it 

 is done. 



Sect. 3. Any person, either for himself or in the employ of 

 any other person, firm or corporation, who manipulates the 

 Babcock test or any other test, whether mechanical or chemical, 

 for the purpose of measuring the contents of butter fat in milk 

 or cream for a basis of apportioning the value of such milk or 

 cream, or the butter or cheese made from the same, shall secure 

 a certificate from the superintendent of the dairy school at the 

 College of Agriculture of the University of Maine- that he or 

 she is competent and well qualified to perform such work. The 

 rules and regulations in the application for such certificate and 

 in the granting of the same shall be such as the superintendent 

 of that school may arrange, and the fee for issuing a certificate 

 shall in no case exceed one dollar, the same to be paid by the 

 applicant. 



Sect. 4. Whoever uses, or has in his possession with intent 

 to use, at any creamery, butter factory, cheese factory or con- 

 densed milk factory, any sulphuric acid of less than one and 



"State College Experiment Station" in original act. 



"State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts" lu original act. 



