PART IX. 



EXTRACTS FROM 



STATE DAIRY COMMISSIONER'S 

 REPORT OF 1909. 



TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL 



H. R. WRIGHT, Commissioner. 



The law ereatino; the office of Dairy Commissioner requires au 

 annual report to the Governor of the state covering the dairy busi- 

 ness of the state. Later enactments make this department respon- 

 sible for the enforcement of the following laws: 



PURE FOOD LAW. 

 PAINT AND LINSEED OIL LAAYS. 

 CONCENTRATED FEEDING STUFFS LAW, 

 CONDIMENTAL STOCK FOOD LAW. 

 AGRICULAURAL SEEDS LAW. 



The foregoing statement of expenses of this department includes 

 all the salary and expenses of the commissioner and the deputy, 

 and salaries of clerks, though only a minor portion of their time 

 and services can be devoted to the -work or connected with the dairy 

 business. The law authorizing the employment of inspectors 

 under the pure food law and providing for their compensation 

 specifies the duties that they shall perform, their services are 

 authorized for the specific purposes of the food law. On the other 

 hand the dairy assistants could often do valuable Avork along the 

 other lines but their time is more than occupied with the cream- 



