REPORT OF STATE DAIRY INSPECTOR. 



To Hon. IV. T. Guptill, Commissioner of Agriculture: 



I respectfully submit my report as Dairy Inspector for the 

 year ending December 31, 1916. 



As usual, a large part of the past year was spent in collecting 

 milk and cream samples throughout the state. However, the 

 number of samples taken has been smaller than in former 

 years, due to the fact that considerable time was spent at other 

 work. 



Upon request from several city and town health authorities, 

 much time was spent with them, investigating the sanitary con- 

 ditions surrounding their milk supplies. Much time was also 

 given to the investigations of complaints by individuals, charg- 

 ing that certain supplies of milk were under standard or that 

 certain milk dealers were not licensed. Each of these investi- 

 gations proved the milk supply in question to be above stand- 

 ard, l)ut, in most cases, that certain dealers were not licensed. 



The marketing of butter, cheese, etc., from wagons on the 

 street and in public places, in our larger cities, has been thor- 

 oughly investigated during the past year. The purpose of this 

 investigation was to determine whether or not the small wagon 

 dealers were complying with the net weight law, requiring the 

 net weight to be stamped conspicuously on the packages. I 

 found considerable violation of this law in my first visits, but 

 return visits proved that they had taken advantage of my 

 previous warnings. 



In February, a complaint came from creamery patrons at 

 Alna, charging that they were not receiving correct butter-fat 

 tests from the creamery. On February 21, I w^ent to Alna with 

 Dairy Instructor J- H. Blanchard, where I enumerated some of 

 the factors causing variations in the butter-fat test from month 

 to month. 



