REPORT OF STATE DAIRY INSPECTOR. 



To Hon. W. T. Guptill, Commissioner of Agriculture: 



I respectfully submit my report as Dairy Inspector, from 

 March 8, 1915, when I was appointed, to Dec. 31, 1915. 



When appointed to the ofifice of Dairy Inspector, the work 

 was supervised by the Chief Bureau of Inspection, and I 

 worked as a Deputy Inspector under him until September 

 I, when I took complete charge of Dairy Inspection. 



At the beginning of the year the quarterly Dairy Bulletin, 

 "Investigation of Dairy Products," was temporarily trans- 

 ferred to the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, at Orono, 

 for publication. The publication of this bulletin remained at 

 Orono until September i, when it was brought back to this 

 office. Therefore, the bulletin, "Investigation of Dairy 

 Products," for the last quarter of the year 191 5, is the only 

 bulletin I have published. As well as the report of analyses, 

 this bulletin contains two articles under the titles, "Scope of 

 Dairy Inspection" and "Cooperative Inspection." The only 

 dairy bulletin published by the Experiment station was a bulle- 

 tin, "Official Inspection 71," entitled "Cream and Milk," which 

 was published in July, 191 5. At the request of Director 

 Charles D. Woods, I prepared an article, "Clean Milk Produc- 

 tion," for this bulletin. 



From March i to June i, my time was spent taking samples of 

 milk and cream to be analyzed at the Maine Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, at Orono, to determine whether or not they 

 were up to the standard required by law. 



The first week in June was spent in preparing the Agricul- 

 tural Exhibit at the Maine State Exposition and the two weeks 

 following I was at the Exposition which was held in the Expo- 

 sition Building at Portland, June 7 to 19. 



During the latter part of June, July and the first of August, 

 I took milk and cream samples from time to time, but spent the 



