234 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



Resolved, that our executive committee be instructed to make 

 arrangements wliereby such portion of the milk and cream 

 exhibit as is necessary for a bacterial count be sent to some 

 place properly e(|uipped with a bacteriological laboratory in 

 time so that the entire exhibit can be scored and the score at- 

 tached at the time of the meeting; and that we adhere to our 

 present score card for the ensuing year. 



This motion wasi passed. 



Mr. Harris: I wish to say a few words in regard to cer- 

 tain requirements that the Boston Board of Trade has set forth, 

 for the producers of dairy products where the product goes 

 into the city of Boston, in relation to barns and dairies. Last 

 spring at one of the special meetingsi of the Creamerymen's 

 Association the question came up in regard to undesirable pro- 

 ducers of dairy products who are patrons of different cream- 

 eries. There is nothing to prevent a man, for instance, if a 

 certain creamery does not want to take his product because of 

 undesirability, from sending it to some other creamery if he 

 so desires, or making his own product from a barn that per- 

 haps is unsanitar)^ It seemed to the creamerymen at that time 

 very wise if something could be brought to bear on the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture whereby a sort of clearing house could be 

 established so that an undesiirable producer might be listed ; 

 that the question of licensing or registering of producers of 

 dairy products, whether creamery patrons or milk producers, 

 would be a good thing. That has not been presented to the 

 Department for the reason that the man at the head of the 

 dairy inspection work was transferred to another field and his 

 work was, under the pure food division. In view of the fact 

 that the Boston Board of Health are doing this very work, it 

 seems to me that the dairymen of this state ought to take action 

 along that line; that we should get on the ground first and 

 do something that would be acceptable to the Boston Board of 

 Health. Of course what they would advocate for the health 

 and happiness of the people there is nothing more than we 

 would advocate for our own state or any other place where 

 the product goes. The creamerymen appointed a committee to 

 wait upon the agricultural department and possibly, further, 

 the legislature. 



