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Conventions. 



I also wish to rejxvrt that it has been my pleasure, with your 

 approval, to attend' three imiportaiit meetings ckiring the year : 

 a meeting of the Food, Dairy and Drug Officials, and Chemists, 

 held at Boston, May fifteenth, at which all of the New England 

 States were represented ; the Annual Convention of the Associa- 

 tion of .American Dairy, Food & Drug Officials, held at Port- 

 lanf], July thirteenth to cighteentli, at which twenty-nine State 

 Departments, and numerous representatives from the Federal 

 Department, were present and' on November sixteenth, a meet- 

 ing of the Food Control Official's held at W^ashington, D. C. 

 The last named meeting 'was in session at tlie same time the 

 Feed Manufacturers' Association was held. 



The privilege of attending these gatherings was greatly ap- 

 preciated and much 'benefit was d'erived as the opportunity was 

 given for the discussion of papers, for listening to lectures 

 bearing on food- subjects, and for meeting with earnest and in- 

 terested men who are serving as food officials and chemists 

 and who bear a national reputation. 



In closing, I wish to sincerely thank you for the encourage- 

 ment and endorsement you have given my efforts in performing 

 my duties during the year. I also desire to express my appre- 

 ciation and thanks to the Attorney General and his assistants 

 for their services; to the attorneys in the counties where prose- 

 cutions have been made; to the members of the Department of 

 Agriculture of this state as well as to the chief and other offi- 

 cers of the Bureau of Chemistry at the United States Depart- 

 ment ; also the indebtedness I feel to the director of the Maine 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, and the chemists at the labor- 

 atory, for their close cooperation in the work pertaining to 

 this office. 



Resipect fully sulbmitted, 



A. M. G. SOULE, 

 Chief, Bureau of Inspection. 



