38 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



"The Sale of Renovated Butter in Maine," and "The Food 

 Value of Clean Milk." 



The object of these Quarterly Bulletins is to place before 

 the consuming public some data and information about dairy 

 products that are being sold, and, as a means for dairymen to 

 advertise the quality of their product, it serves well. 



The principal receivers of the Bulletins at present are the 

 milkmen themselves, but our present mailing list of 4500 names 

 shows an increase over last year and that more actual users of 

 dairy products are availing themselves of the opportunity 

 offered. 



It was my privilege to be in attendance and to address Grange 

 meetings at East Vassalboro, Hiram anrl Thome's Corner, on 

 some phase of the clean milk question. At East Vassalboro 

 considerable interest was taken in a milk, cream and butter 

 scoring contest suggested by this Department and worthy of 

 attention by other Granges as a means of determining the 

 efficiency of their dairymen as producers of products of high 

 quality. 



I was in attendance at the Maine State Fair and Central 

 Maine Fair in charge of the exhibits of dairy products and of 

 the competitve contests for milk and butter fat production. 



At the Maine State Fair some eff'ort was made to give a 

 clean milk exhibit by showing growing bacteria and their rela- 

 tion to dirty milk. Prepared slides of stained bacteria were 

 shown through a microscope, and suggestions relative to clean 

 milk were given to many interested people. 



At your request I was in attendance at the Androscoggin 

 County Fair at Livermore Falls, the Monroe Fair and the Bris- 

 tol Fair, where exhibits and conditions were noted. 



I was in attendance at the Dairy Meeting in Portland and 

 assisted in computing scores of milk and cream. 



At the Dairy Meeting at ,Saco I was in charge of the exhibit 

 of dairy products and assisted in scoring the same. At this 

 meeting I delivered an address entitled '-Qur Present Economic 

 Dairy Situation and its Relation to Consumer and Producer." 



In the December Quarterly Bulletin issued from your office, 

 T was privileged to include an article entitled "Sanitary 

 Remodeling of Dairy Barns." This article contained practical 



