CHAPTER II 
SELLING MILK 
MEASURING MILK 
THE laws of most states and cities describe 
milk as fluid drawn from the udders of dairy 
cows, to which nothing has been added, and from 
which nothing has been taken away, and which 
contains not less than 11.5 to 12 per cent solids, 
and not less than 3 to 3.5 per cent butter fat. 
Milk must be measured either by volume or by 
weight. If by volume, the common measurement 
is the number of quarts or cans. This method of 
measuring milk is unfair, both to the dairyman 
and to the milk dealer, because it is inaccurate. 
Battered or dented cans and cans not full make 
correct measurement of milk by volume impos- 
sible. 
The dairyman delivering milk in cans that 
are badly dented is cheating the milk dealer, 
and unfair to the dairyman equipped with good 
cans. 
