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so that they may know what they are buying; at the present time 

 there is no statute requiring any distinctive mark on skim cheese. 

 I recommend the passage, by the Legislature, of an act requiring 

 all manufacturers of skim cheese to brand each cheese, and the 

 package in which it is contained, with an appropriate device show- 

 ing just what i( is, either full skim or part skim as the fact may bo; 

 in this way the public will be protected against a fraudulent impo- 

 sition which has proved to be quite a dangerous competitor in the 

 trade. These brands might properly be issued through this depart- 

 ment under proper provision of law the same as brands for full 

 cream cheese are now issued, and in that way a public record of the 

 same would be kept accessible at all times. In fact, I think that no 

 cheese should be allowed to be sold on our markets not branded 

 for what it actually is, with the authorized brand issued through 

 this department under proper regulations. 



EXPERT BUTTER AND CHEESE MAKERS. 



§ 4. Expert butter and cheese makers. — The commissioner 

 of agriculture may appoint and employ not more than five expert 

 butter and cheese makers, who shall^ under his direction, examine 

 and inspect butter and cheese factories and attend at agricultural 

 fairs, societies and meetings designated by the commissioner, to 

 impart thereat information as to the best and most approved 

 method of making butter and cheese and improving the quality 

 thereof. 



In each of my former reports to the Legislature I have discussed 

 this question and have particularly recommended that this section 

 be repealed or so modified as to allow the Commissioner to appoint 

 all necessary experts for the purposes outlined in this section. 

 We have more than 1,600 butter and cheese factories in the State 

 and it is a matter of physical impossibility for five men to annually 

 give instruction to the makers in each of these factories, and yet 

 if we are to regain the position which we formerly held in this 

 trade it is absolutely essential that we should put upon the market 

 a product uniform in quality and standard. To do this we should 

 have a sufficient number of experts in this branch of the service 

 to annually instruct all the factorymen in the best and most ap- 



