REPORT OF STATE DAIRY INSPECTOR. 



To Hon. J. A. Roberts, Commissioner of Agriculture: 



I respectfully present my report as Dairy and Milk Inspector 

 for the year 191 3. 



The majority of my time has been taken up with the inspec- 

 tion of milk supplies of the cities and large communities of the 

 state. During the year I have secured from dealers 1,169 

 samples of milk and cream and 240 samples of butter or butter 

 substitutes which have been analyzed and the results reported 

 in the quarterly bulletins of the Department. 



Prosecutions for violations of the laws regulating the pro- 

 duction and sale of milk and cream number 38 and two prose- 

 cutions have been made for violation of the law relative to 

 labeling renovated butter. 



DdJwy farms visited and inspected for sanitary conditions of 

 milk production, number 115. This is a detail that I believe 

 should be given much attention as the education ©f the dairy- 

 man at his place of business is the proper point to begin the 

 sanitary improvement of our milk situation. Every opportunity 

 to visit a dairy farm has been taken and I have found that many 

 requests for visits have had to pass because of pressure of time 

 for securing samples. I have endeavored through correspond- 

 ence, newspaper articles and short articles in the quarterly bul- 

 letins to enlighten the producers and consumers of dairy prod- 

 ucts as much as possible. 



City milk rooms where milk is received and bottled, number- 

 ing 62, have been visited. In the handling of milk in these 

 rooms many dangers have been corrected. The returning and 

 washing of milk bottles and cans is, in itself, a large influencing 

 factor in the delivery of clean safe milk. On this point I have 

 further suggestions to make elsewhere in this report. 



