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proved methods of manufacture; in fact^ in all of the rural districts 

 the agents of this department should, as a rule, be men competent 

 not only to make cheese but to give instruction and direction in the 

 best methods pursued in its manufacture. It is very largely in this 

 way that our Canadian neighbors have acquired the pre-eminence 

 they have in the cheese trade; they work on systematic lines with 

 a settled policy as to methods; the result is great uniformity in 

 the character of the product put upon the market. 



My own observation, and it is carried out by the opinion of the 

 largest dealers in the trade, is, that since the passage of the law 

 providing for the limited number of experts w^hich we now have that 

 the result has been gratifying and marked almost beyond belief. 

 Where these men have done their work in the past few years the 

 quality of the product has been so materially increased that it 

 has annually amounted to thousands of dollars in increased prices 

 to producers. If this service can be further extended, as it is 

 absolutely necessary that it should be, it will pay for itself many 

 times over each year. What is true of the cheese trade is true of 

 the butter trade. The greatest panacea for fraud, in my opinion, is 

 not in legislation against spurious productions, but in improved 

 methods of making and scientific investigation which will result 

 in putting upon the market products in every way superior to 

 these sold at the present time, and the standard away above any 

 fraudulent product that has thus far been invented, 



COUNTY TRADE-MARK. 



Section 35 of chapter 838, Laws of 1893 reads as follows: 



§ 35. County trade marks. — At a regular or special meeting of 

 a county dairymen's association in any county of the state there 

 may be adopted a county trade mark, by a majority of the mem- 

 bers present and voting, to be used as a trade mark l3y am* person 

 manufacturing pure unadulterated butter of full-cream cheese in 

 such county. The secretary of the association shall forthwith 

 send to the commissioner of agriculture a copy of such trade mark, 

 whicli copy he shall place on file in his office, noting thereupon the 

 day and hour he received the same. But one county trade mark 

 for butter and for cheese shall be placed on file for the same county. 



*So in the original. 



