REPORT OF STATE DAIRY INSPECTOR. 4I 



Articles have been written for local newspapers in different 

 sections, touching on the existing conditions and the improve- 

 ments of the same. 



My addresses before high school students have been a broad- 

 ening of the field of lecture work, but it is a field of elementary 

 education of milk conditions and I believe in time this subject 

 will have a prominent place in the course of study of everv 

 student. Milk is a food with which nearly everyone has more 

 or less to do, and its importance must be realized. 



At the Central Maine Fair at Waterville and at the Maine 

 State Fair in Lewiston, a milk and cream scoring contest was 

 conducted. The government score card, having the bacteria 

 content of the product as a basis for scoring, was used. Much 

 interest is always taken in these contests by those exhibiting, 

 but the average milk producer does not include his product in 

 such a contest. To reach these men, I have advocated the 

 sending of notices to all local boards of health and to all news- 

 papers, and have sent the same, stating that this Department 

 was ready to conduct scoring contests for any or all of the local 

 milk dealers in the state. From the fact that the offer was not 

 accepted by any board of health or any association of producers 

 or consumers, one can hardly help concluding that there is an 

 apparent laxity on the part of these bodies of officials, or at 

 least that the status of our milk industry is not advanced in 

 knowledge or inclination sufficient to entertain educational 

 scoring contests in an effort to ascertain actual conditions and 

 the improvement of such conditions if possible. 



I have met with the creamery men of the state in assembled 

 meeting and have discussed plans for improvement. It is their 

 desire to secure more and better products and to this end they 

 have signified their desire for the farmer to be educated along 

 the line of economic production of a better product. They 

 requested this office to prepare helpful suggestions to the actual 

 producer of milk and this was attempted in number nineteen of 

 the quarterly bulletin, under the title "Suggestions for Dairy 

 Farmers." 



Included in the Quarterly Dairy Bulletin, besides the analysis 

 of samples collected and resulting prosecutions for violations, 

 have been articles prepared in an endeavor to enlighten and 

 instruct as much as possible those having to do with the produc- 



