14 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



States Inspectors in different parts of this State, who have as- 

 sisted this Department in the work relating to contagious and 

 infectious diseases among animals; and to the Dairy Division of 

 the United States Department for the assistance they have 

 given me. 



To Dr. Robert J. Aley, president of the University of Maine, 

 for the assistance he has rendered us personally and through his 

 professors in the different branches of agriculture, and the an- 

 nual report of his College. 



To Dr. Chas. D. Woods, Director of our Experiment Station, 

 for the assistance rendered by him and his professors at the 

 Station, especially in the line of entomological work, and for 

 the annual report of the work of his Station and that of High- 

 moor Farm. 



To Prof. Henry D. Evans, in charge of our State Laboratory 

 of Hygiene, for the assistance he has given our State chemist 

 in prosecutions for violations of the dairy laws. 



To the Pomona and subordinate granges in different parts of 

 the State, for their able assistance in conducting our Farmers' 

 Institutes, by furnishing halls and entertaining the speakers 

 that were sent from this Department. 



To the men in this Department, for the able support they 

 have given me in the different branches of the work; also, to 

 those who have assisted us in the Institute work conducted by 

 the Department the past year, and to my chief clerk and her 

 assistants, who are always ready and willing to assist me. 



WEIGHTS AND ME.^SURES. 



The work of adjusting the weights and measures of the 

 State was added to this Department by an act of the legislature 

 at its last session, which went into effect the first of July, 1911, 

 making the Commissioner of Agriculture State Sealer of 

 weights and measures. The condition of the weights and meas- 

 ures all over the State is very poor, as our State stand- 

 ards have not been compared with the United States 

 standards for more than forty years, and no sealer in 

 the State could prosecute any party for using false 

 weights and measures. In December the Governor and Coun- 

 cil passed an order to purchase a set of State standards, at a 



