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of Agriculture was established. The announced 

 duties of this division were "to foster and encourage 

 the development of quality dairy production in 

 Michigan, to enforce existing dairy laws and to bring 

 about needed dairy reform." It was recommended 

 by the Michigan Allied Dairy x\ssociation that 

 twenty inspectors be employed, distributed as fol- 

 lows : butter interests, six ; cheese interest, one ; con- 

 densed and powdered milk interests, one; ice-cream 

 interests, two; market milk and production, ten. 

 The dairy association suggested, it was stated, that 

 $100,000 be appropriated to the maintenance of this 

 division.^ 



Canning on the farms began before factory pro- 

 duction and has continued alongside of it, with a 

 steady increase in the output of factory goods. The 

 special United States census on canning and pre- 

 serving in Michigan reported products of a value of 

 $8,194,000, in 1914. This came from ninety-one 

 establishments, employing an average number of 

 2,507 wage earners, and the cost of materials used 

 aggregated $4,893,000. Michigan's rank among the 

 several states was then eleventh. 



Before the interposition of the Government com- 

 pelled the packers to relinquish enterprises of this 

 character. Armour & Company at their Frankfort 

 plant packed red raspberries and red sour cherries; 

 while at Mattawan, the company's grape-juice fac- 

 tory pressed an average of 2,500 tons annually. At 



' JMicliipan State Farm Bur., News Service, Lansing, April 

 23, 1921, 2. 



