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efforts of the department and others to show the business man or woman the 

 advantages gained through improved health, and the wholesome diversification 

 of their time by the use of good horses is yielding results. To ride a well 

 mannered horse through the miles of planned trails out over the beautiful 

 countryside will do much to have one fully realize the true values of our fine 

 State. The greater use of pleasure horses will keep more of our land in use 

 to supply feeding materials, more men in employment, and a more healthy 

 populace. The division has felt the work spent on light horses was a very 

 worth-while promotion. 



Promotional Activities 



The activity in promotional fields of endeavor has been aggressively carried 

 on by means of articles written for publication in farm or daily papers, by 

 means of prepared radio talks, and by assembled group meetings throughout 

 the Commonwealth. The director has been called to various meetings through- 

 out the New England area to discuss the regulation of milk produced for 

 our markets or subjects pertinent to its production. The division has worked 

 in complete harmony with the various other established agencies within our 

 industry such as producers, dealer organizations, the farm bureau, the exten- 

 sion service, the State college, the various fairs and market outlets for the 

 better handling of dairy or livestock products. 



Inspection of Dairy Farms 



Dairy farm inspection under Chapter 305 of the Acts of 1932 has progressed 

 with varying degrees of improvement. The pi'ogress has been very good 

 along the lines of uniform interpretation of regulations. Several meetings 

 of our inspectors have been held to discuss uniformity. One meeting was 

 held at a farm where actual scoring was done and every detail discussed, 

 and after this discussion a very definite progress was made on uniform inter- 

 pretation. The problem of local inspectors interpreting the regulations of the 

 Milk Regulation Board along with their own local ordinances is still a problem. 

 There seems to be no practical way of accomplishing a method to bring about 

 uniformity of the inspection of dairy farms, particularly on our Massachusetts 

 dairy farms, and the only logical way is to enact legislation along this line. 

 I particularly recommend that some form of legislation be passed that would 

 enable the director to assign, allot or supervise the territoi*y or farms to be 

 inspected by local inspectors. 



The limits of the milk shed remain about the same exceprt that within the 

 area many requests for inspection of dairy farms reveal the cream shippers 

 are constantly changing to fluid milk producers. One prosecution and con- 

 viction resulted from a shipment of Michigan milk to Massachusetts markets 

 from unregistered farms. In accordance with figures from the Federal Milk 

 Administrator's ofiice more milk is being produced per dairy and more dairies 

 are shipping milk, the result being that surplus milk is increasing and lowers 

 the blended price returned to producers. Some definite steps should be taken 

 to control this increase of milk into Massachusetts in order that the Massa- 

 chusetts producers can expand without being penalized. 



Dairy exhibits were installed at New Bedford Food Show, Marshfield Fair, 

 Topsfield Fair, Brockton Fair, Eastern States Exposition, Great Barrington 

 Fair, the Boston Food Show, and the Trade Show at the Union Agricultural 

 Meeting. 



One hundred twenty-two certificates of registration were refused or re- 

 voked after hearings; 55 were reinstated and 67 stand refused or revoked 

 to date. 



Complete inspections were made of all dairy farms supplying the following 

 creameries or plants out-of -State : 



