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it now appears necessary to raise the quality of Pacific coast products, 

 improve methods of packing and preserving, and obtain more satis- 

 factory^ ocean transportation facilities before any considerable demand 

 can be created in the Orient for the dairy products of the Pacific 

 States. 



Incidental to the experimental exports, fine exhibits of dairj^ prod- 

 ucts of the United States were made at the Universal Exposition at 

 Paris and the annual show of the British Dairy Farmers' Association 

 at London (October, 1900). These disj)lays were personallj^ supervised 

 by the chief of the dairy division, and the duties connected therewith 

 required much labor of detail at the office of the division. A report 

 upon the dairy features of the Paris Exposition has already been sub- 

 mitted and published. 



During the fiscal year 1901-1902 the work of the dairy division is ex- 

 pected to be largely a continuation of that of the year previous, as 

 above reported. 



The investigations of productive conditions, demands of consump- 

 tion and markets, made in Porto Rico and other West Indian islands 

 by Mr. Peai'son, assistant chief of the division, and in the Orient bj" 

 Mr. Emery, special expert agent, will be completed and reported upon. 

 Further experimental exports are likely to be made, based upon these 

 reports. 



Incidental to these endeavors to supply butter and cheese to markets 

 in warm climates, and requiring long voyages without refrigerated 

 transportation, it will probably be found necessary to make a careful 

 stud}^ of the whole subject of preparing and packing butter for distant 

 markets and long keeping, with exposures to high temperatures. In 

 the same connection, further investigation of the means of producing 

 good buttei having a high melting point and comparatively resistant 

 to high temperature in transit and in market is necessary. 



More attention is being given every year in this country to the 

 manufacture of cheese of foreign forms and peculiarities. Informa- 

 tion on this subject is called for and anotfier field of labor for the 

 division is thus indicated. 



Material improvements are in progress in the milk supply of cities 

 and towns. The dairy division hopes to follow this important subject 

 closely, and to contribute to the means and methods of attaining the 

 desired advance in the puritj" and quality of market milk. 



In accordance with repeated recommendations from this office, 

 approved and embodied in successive Annual Reports of the Bureau 

 and the Department, the Congress at its last session amended the act 

 of 1891, which provides for the inspection of live cattle, the carcasses, 

 and products thereof, to include all dairy products offered for export, 

 in order "to secure their identity and make known in the markets of 

 foreign countries to which they may be sent from the United States 

 their purity, quality, and grade." This new law becomes operative 

 with the beginning of the fiscal j^earof 1901-1902, and it is assumed that 

 considerable work of administration and supervision will devolve upon 

 the dairy division in this connection. 



As collateral to the work of this division it is hoped to conduct 

 during the year a very full analytical examination of the various dairy 

 products of foreign countries. Samples for this purpose have already 

 heeu collected and will be greatly added to from the products found 

 by officers and agents of the division at the foreign exhibitions and 

 markets visited. 



