Condensed Milk. The proportion of milk solids in condensed milk must be the equivalent of 12 per centum of milk solids in crude milk, of which solids 25 per centum must be fat. (Laws 1894, chap. 143, amending Laws 1893, chap. 338, art. II, § 25.) 88 per cent. of watery fluid. OHIO. 12 per cent. of solids, not less than one-fourth of which must be fat; except during the months of May and June, when there must be not less than 11 per cent. of milk solids. (Laws 1896, p. 149.) Condensed Milk. There must be the equivalent of 12 per centum of milk solids in crude milk; of such solids 25 per centum must be fat. (Laws 1886, p. 180.) 88 per cent water. OREGON. 12 per cent. volume of cream. 3 per cent. fat. Specific gravity, after removal of cream, 1.035. (Laws 1893, p. 99.) PENNSYLVANIA. 87 per centum watery fluid. 121 per centum milk solids. 3 per centum fat. Specific gravity, at 60 degrees Fahrenheit, between 1.029 and 1.033. (Laws 1885, No. 186.) Skimmed Milk. 6 per centum of cream by volume. 24 per centum of fat, by weight. Specific gravity, at 60 degrees Fahrenheit, between 1.032 and 1.037. (Laws 1885, No. 186.) SOUTH CAROLINA. Skimmed Milk. Milk which contains less than 3 per centum of butter fat and 81 per centum of solids other than butter fat shall be regarded as skimmed milk. (Laws 1896, No. 96, p. 215.) VERMONT. 121 per cent. of total solids. 9 per cent. of total solids, not fat. In the months of May and June there must be at least 12 per cent. of total solids. (Laws 1888, No. 108.) In all creameries and cheese factories milk containing 4 per cent. of butter fat shall be the standard used as a paying basis. (Laws 1894, No. 113.) WASHINGTON. 3 per cent. pure butter fat. 8 per cent. milk solids other than fat. WISCONSIN. Milk containing 3 per cent. of fat is merchantable milk, provided it has not been diluted or cream abstracted, and is drawn from healthy cows. (Laws 1889, chap. 425.) CANADA (PROVINCE OF ONTARIO). All milk containing less than 13 per cent. of total solids, of which 33 per cent. must be chemically dry butter fat, shall be deemed below the standard required in creameries for butter manufacture. (Vict. 51, chap. 31.) STANDARD FOR QUANTITY OF MILK. Borden's standard of 83 pounds per gallon is now taken and accepted as the standard of milk, not only in our own country, but in all Europe. (Fifth Annual Report [1889] Mich. Dairymen's Association.) LAWS RELATING TO MILK. Chapter 19, Laws of 1895, prescribes the duties of milk inspect ors. CONNECTICUT. The Revised Statutes, section 2658, relates to the bringing of milk to butter and cheese factories. Section 2659 provides that the analysis of milk is to be made by the director of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. Section 2660 requires the words "skimmed milk" to be stamped, etc., on the can, vessel, etc., from which such milk is sold. By section 2661 the sale of impure or adulterated milk is prohibited. Section 2663 provides that notices of these sections are to be posted in all public places, creameries or factories where milk is received or sold. Under section 2664 the seller of milk (which is the product of any cow adjudged to be affected with tuberculosis or other blood disease) is to be fined not more than $7 or imprisonment not more than thirty days. The violators of the other sections are subject to the same penalty. GEORGIA. The sale, exposing for sale or delivery of milk for domestic use of adulterated, skimmed or unwholesome milk, etc., is prohibited; except that buttermilk or skimmed milk can be sold as such. (Laws 1895, No. 207, p. 66.) Law takes effect January 1, 1896. ILLINOIS. It is a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment or both, to adulterate milk with a view of selling it, or producing milk for market from cows diseased or kept in an improper manner. Cans and vehicles must be marked with the name or names of the seller of the milk and the locality from whence it came, and those used in the sale of skim-milk have the words "skimmed milk" marked on the same. (R. S., p. 461.) The operators of butter and cheese factories are required to give bonds, with conditions, and make reports. (R. S., p. 461.) The act approved June 7, 1897, is an act to fix the standard of analysis for milk and reads as follows: Section 1. "That the standard of analysis for milk in this State as to ingredients, and preparations, shall be: Water, 88 per cent.; milk solids, 12 per cent., and such milk solids shall contain not less than 3 per cent. of butter-fat. When contracts are made for milk purchased within this State, for delivery within or without this State, no other standard shall be used except by special contract in writing." INDIANA. It is punishable by a fine of not more than $500 nor less than $50 to knowingly sell or deliver to any cheese or butter manufactory any milk diluted with water or in any way adulterated, keeping back the "strippings," skimmed milk, milk from diseased cows or cows fed on distillery waste or any substance deleterious to the quality of the milk. (R. S., 1888, § 2071.) IOWA. The sale of impure milk is unlawful. Skimmed milk is allowed to be sold as such. Milk dealers must obtain permit to sell in cities of over 10,000 inhabitants. A register is to be kept and a record of each analysis. (Laws 1892, chap. 50.) It is unlawful to knowingly deliver to any cheese or butter man. ufactory any milk diluted with water or in any way adulterated, or skimmed, with intent to defraud or to knowingly sell the milk from diseased animals, or use any deleterious material in the manufacture of cheese or butter. (C. of Iowa, § 4042, chap. 156.) Chapter 47 of the Laws of 1894, regulates the use of a chemical milk test of butter fat in milk at creameries, cheese factories and condensed milk factories. KANSAS. It is punishable by a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $100 to knowingly bring to any cheese manufactory adulterated milk, skimmed milk, tainted or partially sour milk afte" due notice of the same, keeping back "strippings," or the using of cream by manufactories without consent of owners. (R. S., § 2410; Laws 1871, chap. 57.) A later law is substantially the same excepting intent to defraud, bringing milk from diseased cows and knowingly using poisonous or deleterious material in the manufacture of cheese. (G. S., § 2411; Laws 1874, chap. 83.) KENTUCKY. The sale of adulterated and impure milk, and its use in the manufacture of butter and cheese, is punishable by a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $200. (Laws 1893, chap. 182.) MAINE. Measures to be used in the sale of milk to be annually sealed by wine measure (Laws 1887, chap. 20). Inspectors are to be appointed in towns of not less than 3,000 inhabitants. Milk standard fixed and a provision relating to the feeding of cows. (Laws 1893, chap. 255.) Chapter 169 of the Laws of 1895 relates to testing-bottles, pipettes and other measuring glasses used in creameries, and to certificate of competency of employes in creameries and providing penalties for the violation of the law. MASSACHUSETTS. The transportation of milk on railroads is regulated and discrimination in tariff rates is forbidden. (Laws 1893, chap. 220.) The wholesale or retail selling or delivering of milk on the Lord's day is allowed. Provision is made for the use of trademarks by persons or corporations manufacturing, bottling or selling milk; the unlawful use of the same is forbidden. (Laws 1893, chap. 440.) The inspection of animals is required when kept for production of milk. (Laws 1892, chap. 195.) No producer of milk is liable to prosecution for its quality unless it was taken while under his control by an authorized official and sealed samples of it given to him. (Laws 1894, chap. 425.) No person shall sell or offer for sale or exchange, in hermeti cally sealed cans, any condensed milk or condensed skim-milk, unless in cans which are distinctly labeled with the name of the person or company manufacturing said condensed milk or skimmilk, the brand under which it is made, and the contents of the Condensed milk sold from cans or packages not hermetically sealed shall be branded or labeled with the name of the manufacturer. Any person violating this provision of the act shall be subject to the same penalties as for the adulteration of milk. (Laws, 1896, chap. 264.) can. Chapter 398 of the Laws of 1896 amends section 7 of chapter 57 of the Public Statutes as amended by section 7 of chapter 352 of |