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The test samples are examined by the Council's Analyst,
and those taken in accordance with the Act by the Public
Analyst, Sir Thomas Stevenson.
The case dismissed by the magistrates was in respect to
milk sampled in course of delivery at the railway station.
The consignee, a Wimbledon Dairyman, had for some time
suspected the milk received by him from a certain farmer.
He, himself, had 13 or 14 samples taken on consecutive days,
all of which showed a marked deficiency in fat.
The Public Analyst's certificate of the sample taken by
me immediately the churn was put out of the train showed
"a deficiency of milk fat corresponding to the abstraction of
10 per cent." A summons was accordingly issued, and after
hearing the evidence of defendant and his servants to the
effect that they had not added water nor abstracted fat, the
magistrates dismissed the summons, being of opinion that it
was as given by the cow and not adulterated by defendant.
It is interesting to note that from the day the farmer received
the sealed portion of the milk taken by me, thus letting him
know that legal proceedings were contemplated, the milk
sent by him to the same dairyman was up to the proper
standard. If the milk had not been tampered with by him
or his servants, the trouble he was put to by the proceedings
would have been avoided had he taken the measures set out
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