242 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



REPORT OF THE DAIRY BUREAU. 



To the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of 



Massachusetts. 



The membership of the Bureau has been unchanged during 

 the past year, Mr. D. A. Horton having been reappointed 

 by the governor as one of the three members at large of the 

 Board of Agriculture, and as a member of the Dairy Bureau. 

 The assistant to the secretary of the Board of Agriculture in 

 the work of the Dairy Bureau, as provided for by chapter 

 412 of the Acts of 1891, is the acting executive officer of the 

 Bureau, the secretary of the Board being the executive offi- 

 cer, ex officio, by the same statute. The present incumbent 

 was reappointed last September. 



During the year the Bureau has employed permanently 

 two agents who have acted as inspectors, to ascertain how 

 the dairy laws are obeyed, to collect samples and to get 

 evidence of violation of the law. These have been J. W. 

 Stockwell and George F. Baldwin. In accordance with our 

 recommendation of last year, our annual appropriation was 

 increased by the Legislature of 1895 from $4,000 to $7,000. 



Oleomargaeine . 



The work of the Bureau in enforcing the laws relative to 

 imitation butter has been statistically as follows : — 



Number of inspections of stores and other places of 



business, 1,901 



Number of samples taken, ...... 474 



Number of cases in court, 82 



Number of convictions, 42 



