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production of cream at creameries on the factory plan pro- 

 motes uniformity in quality, and enhances popular confi- 

 dence in it. 



Cheese. 



Cheese is the only dairy product in the State which 

 requires very little or no work on the part of those entrusted 

 with the enforcement of the dairy laws. There seems to be 

 no eifort to introduce adulterated or counterfeit cheese into 

 the Massachusetts markets, largely, so far as we are informed, 

 because most dealers are in the habit of buyino- cheese from 

 sections where adulteration is not practised very much. 

 The State law relative to adulterations is now reinforced by 

 the national law against filled cheese, but we find none in 

 the State. 



The quality of cheese sold in the market varies greatly, 

 and, as Massachusetts has no provisions relative to branding 

 cheese, or relative to the fraudulent claim of cheese being 

 full cream when it is made from partially skimmed milk, 

 there is possibly an imposition on the public at times. 

 Cheese made from whole milk will vary relatively as much 

 in per cent of fat as does the milk itself; and full cream 

 cheese from milk having 2.5 or 3 per cent of fat cannot be 

 readily detected from cheese made from milk containing 

 from 5 to 6 per cent of fat which has been partially skimmed. 



Voluntary Assistance. 

 It frequently happens that the appropriation limits our 

 work rather than inability to find something to do, and that 

 important things must therefore be left undone. To pro- 

 mote efficiency and economy of action, the following circular 

 was issued early in the year, and copies have been sent out 

 from time to time to friends of the law : — 



COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



Dairy Bureau. 

 Dear Sir: — Any information which you can give me relating 

 to the illegal sale of dairy products or imitation dairy products 

 (oleomargarine) in your town or city will be thankfully received 



and kept in strict confidence. 



George M. Whitaker, 



P. 0. Box 1332, Boston, Mass. 



