REPORT OF STATE DAIRY INSTRUCTOR. 



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



I hereby submit my report as Dairy Instructor for the year 

 1915. I was appointed to this office on May 24, 191 5, and at 

 once endeavored to familiarize myself with the conditions under 

 which the dairymen are laboring, and the manner in which 

 their products are handled by the different companies engaged 

 in selling dairy products. Dairymen in different sections of the 

 state have been visited, as time would permit, and a careful 

 study of some of our creamery plants has been made. I desire 

 to express my appreciation for the desire on the part of the 

 dairymen to talk over with me their trials, and also the uniform 

 courtesy extended to me by those in charge of the different 

 creameries of the state, and the valuable information which 

 they have so willingly given. I have endeavored to strengthen 

 the bond of confidence between the producer and dealer in 

 dairy products, and I believe there never was a more harmoni- 

 ous feeling than at the present time. 



I have not been able to respond to all the requests for my 

 time, but have attended two Farmers' Institutes, six Breeders' 

 Association meetings, 12 cow test association meetings, eight 

 Pomona and 12 subordinate grange meetings, and two farm 

 demonstration meetings. At these meetings, with the excep- 

 tion of the Farmers' Institutes, addresses were made along 

 dairy and cow test association work, also upon the value of skim 

 milk as a food for farm animals. The number attending the 

 meetings addressed was practically 2,560, or an average of 64 

 for each of the 40 meetings. 



At these meetings there was a commendable degree of inter- 

 est shown, especially by those whose chief source of income is 

 their dairy. I believe the greater part of our dairymen read 

 dairy literature and, as shown by their excellent exhibit at the 

 Dairymen's Conference, are improving the quality of their 

 product. 



