444 ANNUAL REPORTS OP DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE. 



MARKETING DAIRY PRODUCTS. 



Investigations of the various phases of marketing dairy products 

 have been continued, particular attention being given to the pro- 

 ducers' or primary marketing problems. A number of special sur- 

 veys of local marketing conditions and methods were made for the 

 purpose of analyzing the local marketing problems and of suggest- 

 ing methods for their improvement. The dairy marketing work is 

 supervised by Mr. Roy C. Potts. 



BUTTEK AND CHEESE MARKETING. 



Data obtained in the butter marketing surveys conducted during 

 the previous year have been summarized and issued as Circular 66 

 of the Office of the Secretary, Suggestions for the Manufacture and 

 Marketing of Creamery Butter in the South; and in Department 

 Bulletin 456, Marketing Creamery Butter. Preliminary work has 

 been carried on with more than 300 creameries looking toward the 

 issuing of weekly reports of the production of creamery butter in 

 the United States. 



Investigations of all phases of cheese marketing have been ex- 

 tended to include all of the important distributing markets and lead- 

 ing producing sections of the United States and Canada. 



MILK MARKETING. 



A general survey of the market milk business of 40 of the larger 

 cities of New England, Eastern, and Middle Western States has been 

 made and data have been secured from more than 75 cities in all 

 parts of the United States regarding the methods of gathering and 

 distributing the milk supplies of these cities. 



A general survey of the dairy marketing conditions in New Hamp- 

 shire was made in cooperation with the extension division of the New 

 Hampshire Agricultural College, and a report of this survey, now in 

 press, has been published as a bulletin of the New Hampshire Experi- 

 fnent Station. Other milk marketing surveys were made in Wind- 

 ham County and Sussex County, N. J., at Cumberland, Md., and at 

 Dubois, Pa. 



A bulletin entitled " The County Milk Station — Its Function, 

 Organization, Operation, Construction, and Equipment " has been 

 prepared in cooperation with the dairy husbandry department of the 

 New York State College of Agriculture for publication by the New 

 York State College. 



Plans are being formulated for the establishment of a market news 

 service for dairy and poultry products, which will be carried on in 

 connection with the similar service on live stock, meats, and animal 

 by-products, through market field representat\,ves of the bureau sta- 

 tioned in the larger and more important distributi*ng markets and in 

 the producing dairy districts. 



GRAIN, HAY, AND SEED MARKETING INVESTIGATIONS. 



The plans for the work relating to grain, hay, and seed marketing, 

 which are being developed under Mr. George Livingston. Mr. K. B. 

 Seeds, and Mr. W. A. Wheeler, include a careful and detailed eco- 



