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our milk samples gives the following results: total solids, 12.46
per cent.; fat, 3.76 per cent.; solids not fat, 8.71 per cent., which
certainly shows that those milk purveyors in Greenwich who give
their customers a pure milk supply, certainly on the whole give
very good quality indeed.
Samples of the milk supply vended on Sundays, generally give
a larger proportion of adulterated samples than do an equal
number taken upon other days, as many as one-third of the total
samples taken upon one Sunday having been certified by the
Analyst to be adulterated.
The loopholes for escape from the penalties attaching to
the sale of sophisticated articles appear to be very ample,
for a vendor has only to produce a warranty (which by the
way, is a document of most diverse and various character) and he
is absolved from penalties for disposing of an admittedly adulter-
ated article, the warrantor has also only to prove that the warranty
was given in all good faith, and he also is generally able to escape.
Another method is as indicated above, to display a notice,
often of a very ambiguous nature, or to stamp on the packet the
single word "Mixture," and again the vendor escapes because he is
supposed to have made a sufficient disclosure as to the sophistica-
tion of the article asked for. Some shopkeepers keep behind their
counter a small stamp bearing the word "Mixture," or something
to that effect, and then just after wrapping up the package, stamp
with this stamp, and the thing is done. It is, however, to be
feared that even this trifling disclosure is not always made, it may
be that it is only done when the purchase is made by a person
about whom the vendor may have some suspicion as to the object
of the purchase.