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inspecting weighing and measuring devices. The conditions 

 found in some of them may explain the high cost of mainte- 

 nance. 



The State Hospital at Bangor. 



The University of Maine at Orono. 



The State Prison at Thomaston. 



Central Maine Sanatorium at FairfieM. 



State School for Girls at Hallowell. 



Western State Sanatorium at Hebron. 



Maine School for the Deaf at Portland. 



State School for Boys at South Portland. 



Maine School for Feeble Minded at Povvnal. 



Military & Naval Orphan Asylum at Bath. 



The State Hospital at Augusta. 



The State Hospital at Bangor has four sets of scales, run- 

 ning from a small counter scale to the outdoor or platfonn 

 scale. One set of scales, owing to careless handling by one of 

 the patients at the institution, was temporarily put out of com- 

 mission. An expert scale man was called in and the defect cor- 

 rected, so that the scales in that institution were all tested and 

 sealed. They use the system of checking all produce and coal 

 furnished the institution and used by them. 



At the University of Maine we found seven sets of scales. 

 Four of these were at the Experiment Station and were tested 

 and found correct. The scales used in the dairy department 

 were found considerably out of balance and I was unable to 

 get from the man in attendance that any considerable attention 

 was given to the scales and so long as they showed approxi- 

 mately the amount of milk and other products of the dairy they 

 were accepted as satisfactory by them. In the barn the scales 

 which I assume were used to weigh the feed for the cattle I 

 found balanced up with chips of wood. I also found that in 

 the dairy department they were using as a measure for their 

 milk an unsealed fibre container. I was informed by the party 

 in charge that the milk sold to their customers was measured 

 in that container. 



At the State Prison, in Thomaston, I found four sets of 

 scales and, notwithstanding that I expected to fi'ud a deplorable 

 condition existing in their weighing devices. I am frank to say 

 that the four sets were found to be in excellent condition and 



