Tool - Milk testing apparatus

Historical information

Bought by Mrs Tate, mother of the donor in the 1920's and used by her.

Physical description

Fine glass tube inserted with larger coloured tube. On the finer tube indicators for milk, water and (between the two) degrees of adulteration. Accompanying, a printed sheet ('A Novelty Tester') giving instructions on how to determine whether milk is adulterated. The kit housed in a cardboard box on which drawings of tester in application

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