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Laws similar to the one outlined are now in operation in 

 Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecti- 

 cut, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and 

 Wisconsin. It is believed that the enactment of a law 

 including the points outlined above would be for the true 

 interest of producers and consumers alike. 



E. Dairy Legislation. 



The Massachusetts Legislature during the session of 

 1901-1902 passed the following law : — 



[Chapter 202.] 



An Act to provide for the protection of dairymen. 

 Be it enacted, etc., as follows : 



Section 1. All bottles, pipettes or other measuring glasses 

 used by any person, firm or corporation, or by any employee or 

 agent thereof, at any creamery, cheese factory, condensed milk 

 factory, milk depot, or other place, in this state, in determining 

 by the Babcock test, or by any other test, the value of milk or 

 cream received from different persons or associations at such 

 creameries, factories or milk depots as a basis of payment for such 

 milk or cream, shall before use be tested for accuracy. Such 

 bottles, pipettes or measuring glasses shall bear in ineffaceable 

 marks or characters the evidence that such test has been made by 

 the authority named in section two of this act. No inaccurate 

 bottles, pipettes or glasses shall bear such marks or characters, 

 but when found inaccurate shall be marked " Bad." 



Section 2. It is hereby made the duty of the director of the 

 Hatch Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege, or of some competent person designated by him, to test all 

 bottles, pipettes or other measuring glasses, as required by sec- 

 tion one of this act. The director of the experiment station shall 

 receive for such service the amount of the actual cost incurred, 

 and no more, the same to be paid by the persons or corporations 

 for whom it is rendered. 



Section 3. Within six months after this act takes effect, and 

 once each year thereafter, the director of the Hatch Experiment 

 Station, or his authorized agent, shall inspect at the expense of 

 the owners all centrifugal or other machines used by any person, 

 firm or corporation, or by any agent or employee thereof, for the 

 testing of milk or cream iu fixing the value thereof ; and the director 

 of the experiment station or his authorized agent shall cause all 



