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standard. The same may be said of Four Mustards, Two
Peppers, One Coffee and One Cocoa.
The Certificates are all in possession of your Inspectors.
Michaelmas, 1888.
During the past quarter I have analysed twenty-four
samples of Milk, and these have been on the whole satisfactory.
The Summer months are expected to yield fodder
which produces milks rich in cream. Some brought by our
Inspectors must have been top-skims, so rich are they in
cream. Only one milk out of the twenty-four was found
to be skimmed, and none watered beyond the obligation to
be allowed.
Of six Butters all were accounted genuine, as we have
been obliged to raise our standard.
Five of the samples of Coffee out of the six forwarded
were genuine. One sample contained more than a trace of
chicory extract, with very slight indication of chicory-root.
Silica was almost absent. But there was more extractive
than I can account for, and I am making a further more
complete study of the article.
Samples of Lard and Cocoa were also genuine. Of two
Mustards one was strongly suspected from outward