The New York herald., 1876-12-21
Getting at the Cream of the
Milk Inquisition.
SEA CLIFF FROM A NEW STANDPOINT.
A Woman as Body Corporate and a
Judge as Humorst
LIVE OAK GEORGE AS A WITNESS.
Sharp Financiering as Taught
by William G. Barrett.

The Court OF General Sessions, Part was again
largely attended yesterday by those who take an inter-
in the trial Of Daniel Schrumpf of No 206 avenue
b, on a charge of selling adulterated milk. Judge
Sutherland took his seat usual promptly at eleven
O'Clock, and tho proceedings were ut resumed.
AS already ntmated among the main questions to be
determined tho reliability Of the lactometcr used by
tho Board Of Health to detect adutcrated milk Tho
members tho MIX Dealers Association contend that
It its tests. In the Immediate vicin-
ity Of Messrs Prentice and Hastings, counsel for tho
Board Of Health, several distinguished professors
and experts. Mr.. Louis Wachner and Mr. F. X Law
renee defended the prisoner, who did not seem very
attentive listener to the scientific testimony but
him Professor Doremus, who has carefully
watched the progress of the trial from the beginning
Owing TO the temporary absence OF Professor Chand-
Ter, whose cross.examination had not concluded
Tuesday night Professor Charles A. Groesmann, pro-
fessor of chemistry Amherst College, called
witness He deposed that he had made the analysis Of
milk Especial study during the past two years; hc
thought that the lactomctcr accurate test
any yet introduced and much more easy to be used
than any Others the standard OF o29 specific gravity
represented with lactometer by the 100 point mark
recognized by scientific the lowest standard
OF pure commercial MILK and the temperature at which
it should be tested generally agreed upon sixty
degrees Fahrcnhst; the opinion prevailed that
age commercial milk varied from l,027 10 ,033
specific gravity milk tested at sixty degrees
temperature and recording ninety degrees on
the laciomcter showed presence OF ten
per cent Of water. Witness further stated
that ho was familiar with the literature on milk, and
the g. 900 recorded tosts Of which he had read
and tho experiments which he himself had made It
his opinion that the lactometer one OF the
best tests that could be employed. Tho witness
crosscxamincd al great length by Mr.. Lawrence. The
question put whether, II healthy cows were known
10 give milk which had specific gravity OF less than
1029, would not the lact0meer be graduated too high?
but the question, being objected to, excluded.
The witness said he considered that the OF tho
thermometer when testing with the actometer was
always necessary; the analysis OF milk was not q
perfect test the question of the absolute correctness
Of analytical tests being still doubt among scientific
men; he thought that the best way to determine the
relative substances in milk by chemical analysis,
md the lactometer was the most accurate test to
kctcct the presence OF water
The cross-cxamination Of Professor Chandler was
Scxt resumed. He said that the actometsrs in by
the Board OF Health all accurate at the 100 point
mark, which, being the Standard the most ,mpor-
liant; he considered that IT absolutely correct at
IS, IS, l04 and 1O0 and the four instruments with
which he mad experimental tho previous day all
correct at 1907 Of two specimens Of mix registering
respectively on the lactometer 100 and 95 the latter
would contain more water: witness stated that DR..
Wnytes report The Board showed different result,
the milk registering 100 containing most water and
milk would be as iollows:-Fat, 3s-lO; caseine,
437, 454; salts. 053; water, se76; put
the quality OF the milk Counsel Tor the de-
feuce endeavored again TO introduce the bottle OF
white fluid to be examined by the witness. Judge
Sutherland observed that he had doubt from the
deep research that had been made by Professor Dore
mus the realms OF science, he could produce fund
winch would look AMI taste like milk and still not
be milk. AS they were not trying whether the huid
sold by tho defendant milk, but adulternted cows
milk, he would exclude the examination OF foreign
compounds. Dr. G. c. Caldwell, professor OF chemistry
Cornell University, was next examined and corrob-
tho testimony OF the previous witnesses 10 the
accuracy OF tho lactometer in detecting adutcrated
mix. The further hearing Of the case will be contin-
ned to-day.