REPORT OF STATE DAIRY INSTRUCTOR. 



To Hon. J. A. Roberts, Commissioner of Agriculture : 



I respectfully submit my report as Dairy Instructor for the 

 year 19 14. There has never been a time when the dairy inter- 

 ests of this part of the country were as well brought before the 

 people as now. Granges, farmersi' clubs, dairy associations, 

 chambers of commerce and even bankers, are interested in the 

 milk producers. There seems to be a change of heart in the 

 average New England banker. He is beginning to realize that 

 it would be unfortunate to have milk and cream brought in 

 from Canada to supply Boston and other New England cities. 

 Money going to Canada in payment for milk would seldom, if 

 ever, get back into American banks. The banker is beginning to 

 believe that a prosperous farming country- brings prosperity to 

 the cities. 



In this report I am speaking of the milk and cream situation 

 in the New England states, for these states are not so much 

 interested in the butter situation. In the near future it will 

 take all the dairy products of these states to furnish market 

 milk and cream, as the future supply of Boston and the other 

 cities of Massachusetts must come from the states of Vermont, 

 New Hampshire and Maine. Rhode Island and Connecticut 

 cannot supply their own cities. In fact, the state of Maine is 

 sending cream to Rhode Island and Connecticut and no doubt 

 the market could be increased if we had the goods. In order 

 to meet the increased demand there will have to be an increase 

 of dairy cows instead of the decrease that has taken place the 

 last decade. 



I have just noticed by the report of the State Assessors for 

 1914, which is a report of conditions as they existed April i, 

 1914, that the number is still decreasing. The following tables 

 show the increase in the values and the decrease in the number 

 of cows : 



