86 AGRICULTURE OF .MAINE. 



At the State School for the BHnd at Portland I found scales 

 for weighing broom corn in bales, which were also used in th-: 

 manufacture of mattresses, brooms, etc. They use no checking 

 system on coal or food supplies. 



At the Maine Experiment Station, Orono, I found the scales 

 in the various departments well adapted to the uses to which 

 they are put. The large cheese factory scales used in the dairy 

 to weigh the milk after mixing are in fine condition, as well as 

 the Chatillion milk scales in the barn by which they weigh the 

 milk of individual cows. They fill sixteen one-quart sealed 

 fiber containers at one time from a tank and sell to the cus- 

 tomers by this measure. 



The scales at the State Prison, Thomaston, were found to 

 be correct and sealed, except the platform scales in the store- 

 room. The rear end of the platform on these scales is broken 

 oft. The scales are badly rusted and were balanced with 

 difificulty. It shows an error of two ounces on a draft of twen- 

 ty-five pounds, and the error multiplies as test weights are 

 added. This should be replaced by new scales of one thou- 

 sand pounds capacity or more, or, better still, by a set of beef 

 track scales, such as they have at the Bangor State Hospital. 



The scales at the State School for Girls at Hallowell are, 

 with two exceptions, entirely unfitted for the use made of them. 

 The scales used in checking supplies in kitchen are not reliable. 

 They cost about ninety-eight cents, so could easily be replaced. 

 The same applies to the small scales used in the infirmary. The 

 platform scales in the basement and the Jones scales in in- 

 firmary are old and were adjusted with some difficulty. There 

 are no scales for weighing coal and I think the money expended 

 for a good checking system here would l)e justified by the sav- 

 ing. 



At the Central Maine Sanatorium. Fari field, they have a 

 Jones platform scale in the infirmarv which tested out all right, 

 as did the cheap "Family" scale used in the storeroom to check 

 out food sup])lies. They have no scales with which to check 

 in coal and other supplies. 



At the Maine School for Feeble Minded. Pownal. I found a 

 Knowles platform scale which proved correct when tested, but 

 the Familv scale, so called, used in the kitchen for checking 

 out supplies, was short an ounce or two-pound test weight. 



