REPORT OF STATE DAIRY INSPECTOR. 



To Hon. J. P. Buckley, Commissioner of Agriculture: 



I respectfully present my report as Dairy Inspector for the 

 year 1912. 



During the past year I have given much of my time to the 

 inspection of milk in many cities and towns visited. There has 

 been a total of 1294 inspections relative to protecting the public 

 from unsanitary or belov/ standard dairy products. During the 

 year I have secured from dealers 528 samples of milk, 45 sam- 

 ples of cream and 177 samples of butter and butter substitutes. 

 Grocery stores, bakeries, restaurants and drug stores visited 

 and inspected for their care and method of selling dairy prod- 

 ucts number 210, and examinations of milk, wagons and of milk 

 for sediment without a sample being taken, number over 165. 



I have visited 65 city milk rooms and dairies where milk from 

 farmers, shipped over the railroad, is mixed and bottled for 

 city use, offering suggestions for sanitary improvements when 

 it was possible. Score cards were used when practical. 



During the year, 85 milk producing farms have been visited 

 for the purpose of offering, if possible, some suggestions for 

 sanitary and economic improvement, rather than for the purpose 

 of criticising. 



In cooperation with the Experiment Station at Orono. I have 

 visited and inspected 21 creameries in nearly every section of 

 the State. Special note of the sanitary conditions was made and 

 reported with decided resulting changes for the better in many 

 instances. A Bulletin issued by the Experiment Station con- 

 tains these reports. 



An effort has been made to stop the general practice of ship- 

 ping or returning unclean cans or other receptacles. I have 

 noted 152 cases of unclean cans being present at stations or 

 in possession of express companies and in cooperation with the 



