XXII REPORT OF THE SECRin'ARY OF AGRICULTURE. 



iil)lo time and money in our efforts to .solve it, and farther experiments 

 will ho carried on with unabated energy and the added light derived 

 from past experience. It is thought possible that something- may be 

 done ]>y comljining- a dip with a drench containing substances which 

 will act on the tick through the secretions of the skin of the cattle. 



THE DAIRY l>IVISION. 



During the year a detailed report was prepared upon the series of 

 experimental shipments of dairy products to European markets, 

 which were made under special authority given in the acts of Congress 

 making annual appropriation for this Department. 



In the latter part of the year experimental shipments to Europe 

 were again inaugurated, special efforts being made in connection with 

 the Department exhibit at the Paris Exposition to show the high 

 quality of our dairy products. 



A number of experimental shipments of butter, cheese, and cream 

 have also been forwarded to trans-Paciiic points, which had been 

 visited and selected bj- a special agent of the Department. On account 

 of the great distance and the failure of some of the consignees to at 

 first fully understand the purposes of the Department's efforts, it is 

 not yet possible to make a report upon these shipments. 



Arrangements were :iiade in the dairy division for the United States 

 exhibit of animal industries at the Paris Exposition. The chief of the 

 division took personal charge of the preparation of the various 

 exhibits. 



Much valuable information concerning dairying in foreign countries 

 has been received in reports from consuls, through the courtesy of the 

 State Department. These reports will be prepared for publication as 

 soon as the work of the division permits. 



Shipments of butter to Cuba and Porto Rico have been begun. In 

 these experiments we are confronted with problems quite similar to 

 those met in the shipments from San Francisco to the Orient. The 

 dairy products are forwarded to warm countries, shipment has to be 

 made without refrigeration, and cold storage is not available at the 

 points of destination. It is necessary, therefore, to send butter, and 

 perhaps cheese, as well as condensed milk and cream, in hermetically 

 sealed packages, which afford the best means known of preserving 

 such perishable products. The Department is seeking to obtain infor- 

 mation useful to butter exporters in canning butter and producing but- 

 ter which has a hard body. To this end, experiments are now in prog- 

 ress at some of the State stations. Some countries sending butter in 

 cans to the new markets supply a product with a very high melting 

 point, showing in this, as in other waj^s, a disposition to adapt their 

 products to the needs of those countries, an example our producers 

 must follow if the}' are to successfullv compete in those markets. 



