MILK FRAUDS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10559, 9 April 1920, Page 7

MILK FRAUDS

THE AMERICAN METHOD. Details just to hand from U.S.A. indicate the very serious character of the milk record frauds in America (says an exchange). The president of tne llolstoin-Friosinn Association of America, Mr D. D. Ait ken, in a statement sent to ■members, gives some details of the extra ordinary fraud to which the perpetrator, in the.presence of members ot tho executive committee at a meeting in Chicago, confessed. He said that bo had "made” 10 to 50 pounds butter records with Holstein -Frir si a n cows. Tho confession, sworn to and signed, is in tho custody of the. committee. Ho “made” cows

“make” phenomenal records by introducing several pounds ot cream into the pail nt each milking. It is stated that ho carried the required quantity of cream diluted with water, in a rubber hot-water bottle, which was fastened to and suspended from a band round his neck, and concealed by a loose jumper. A rubber tuba extended from the water bottle down inside the wearer’s overalls, and, through a slit in tho crotch, was introduced ip to tho padl. A stopper in or clump near the end of the tube was removed at the right time and place, and tie requisite snantity of cream ran into the milk pan when tho latter was full or "foam-lull.” It was a simple trick, performed with considerable skill. The conditions surrounding the performance were important. The stall required to be built or arranged so that, while he milked a cow in it, them should be no room at her head or tail, or it the left side for a. supervisor to sit or stand. The supervisor, looking on from the onlv position which it was physically possible for him to take while the milker bundled tho cow, could not see what was done.