Report of S. Brown Richardson. 



Hon. Charles A. Wieting, Commissioner of Agriculture: 



Dear Sir — I have the honor of presenting this my fifth an- 

 nual report of the work done in the Fifth Division of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture for the year ending Septmber 30. 1901. 



Early in the year the employees in this division were interested 

 in obtaining a representative exhibit of dairy products for the 

 annual meeting of the State Dairymen's Association, held in 

 the city of Watertown, December 12 and 13, 1900. 



This meeting was attended by dairymen representing many 

 States of the Union, and great interest was manifested in the 

 splendid display of butter, cheese and dairy utensils. There can 

 be no doubt that this great meeting was productive of much 

 good by way of bringing together the dairymen of our State 

 and marshaling them in the line of progress that has so materi- 

 ally benefited all dairy interests. 



Butter and cheese are the principal projducts of farms in the 

 northern counties of this State, and the increasing demand for 

 both these food products shows how well the people have profited 

 by the instruction furnished by the State Department of Agri- 

 culture. A prerequisite to the manufacture of fine butter and 

 fine cheese is cleanliness. We must have clean barns, clean ani- 

 mals, clean milkers, clean receptacles, and clean and well venti- 

 ated rooms in which to develop these products or they will never 

 be what they should ever be — the first quality. 



Along the lines of advanced dairy methods the men employed 

 in this division have been working; spending, as in former years, 

 more time in giving instruction than in ferreting out infractions 

 of the law. It is not, however, to be inferred from this state- 

 ment that they have in any way neglected their duty as guardi- 



