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to be absolutely genuine. The only remedy appears to
consist in the fixture, by the legislature, of fair average
standards, below which everything should be legally unsaleable.
If this were done, the breeders of milk stock
would soon work up to it, and foreigners would have to
find some other market for their poor butter. No substantial
injustice would be done, because it is a fairly
disputable question whether the man who produces natural
milk with too much water in it does not defraud the
public just as much as if he bred good milk and put the
water in afterwards. Until this end has been attained
however, we can only continue to take the lowest possible
limit that the natural article has been known to reach
and to pass all samples over that limit as "genuine."
I have the honour to be,
Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
JOHN MUTER, F.R.S. (Edin); F.I.C.,
Public Analyst.