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with an officer of the Dairy Bureau. At the trial of the case 

 the inspector told his story, and the defendant denied sub- 

 stantially every material portion of the inspector's evidence. 

 The inspector was cross-examined by the defendant's lawyer, 

 and the defendant was examined by the general agent of the 

 Bureau, the judge himself asking several questions. As a 

 result of this careful investigation, the fellow was found 

 guilty and fined. He appealed, and in the superior court 

 there was the same conflict of evidence and a similar cross- 

 examination of witnesses by the defendant's lawyer and the 

 district attorney. As a result of this sifting of the varying 

 stories, the jury believed that the man was guilty, and so 

 found. Now, Judge Berry of the Lynn police court inter- 

 prets the law of evidence as requiring him to acquit a de- 

 fendant against whom there is only one witness, if the 

 defendant denies or even questions the story of that witness. 

 This judge, therefore, says that, if we are to be allowed to 

 swear out complaints in his court, we must duplicate our 

 evidence, — have our inspectors travel in pairs, so that the 

 story of one may be corroborated by the story of the other. 

 If this is good law, the practice will eventually be adopted 

 by the other courts and will result in halving the amount of 

 work we can do, or will require double the present appro- 

 priation, if the present degree of efficiency is to be main- 

 tained. 



As the work of the Bureau continues, the increasing ex- 

 perience of the official in charge causes the calls upon him 

 to grow broader in their scope. He has been for a number 

 of years a lecturer on dairy topics before one of the schools 

 of domestic science in the city. In January he was sent to 

 Washington by the butter men of the Boston Chamber of 

 Commerce, in the interests of the Grout bill, so called. 

 This bill is of much interest to Massachusetts, as it will 

 make its policy as regards imitation-butter legislation in 

 harmony with the Constitution by act of Congress rather 

 than by the divided opinion of the supreme court. The 

 Bureau's general agent, as the representative of the dairy 

 interests of the State, has been placed on the board of offi- 

 cers of the National Farmer's Congress and also of the Na- 



