REPORT OF STATE DAIRY INSTRUCTOR. 



To Hon. J. P. Buckley, Commissioner of Agriculture: 



Having resigned from the position of State Dairy Instructor, 

 I respectfully present my report to and including October 23d^ 

 191 1, the date when my official relations with the Department 

 of Agriculture closed. 



Since my acceptance of the position as State Dairy Instructor 

 of the Dairy Division, Department of Agriculture, I have had 

 charge of the dairy- work that pertains to this office. After 

 fulfilling same to the best of my ability, and unexpectedly hav- 

 ing a call to leave the state, I regret very much to be obliged 

 to make my report for such a short duration of time. 



During the past season I have put in considerable time with 

 the dairymen of the State, getting with them upon their farms 

 and in their dairies, so as to study the conditions as they exist- 

 ed. During the first half of the summer the majority of dairy- 

 men that were shipping their product to the creameries were 

 very much discouraged relative to the price paid for their 

 product, as the great reduction in prices paid by the creameries 

 to the producers had caused much unrest. 



Still, as the season advanced and the prices began to ascend 

 to where they were during the year 1910, the dairy interests 

 took a better turn. In my work with the dairymen I have 

 gained much information that has aided me greatly toward 

 solving the problems that confront them. I have also had a 

 chance to inspect the dairies and creameries over the section of 

 the State thus visited, and I shall endeavor to make my report 

 under headings appertaining to same. 



INSPECTION OF CREAMERIES. 



During my work with the Department of Agriculture I have 

 visited quite a number of creameries and found them in the 



