No. 4.] REPORT OF DAIRY BUREAU. 



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Winter Price. 



* This is a nominal rather than an actual change. With the dropping of the Boston 

 price 2 cents the distance discount-schedule was also lowered 2 cents, so that producers 

 received the same price. 



Educationally. 



The work of the Bureau is unique and different from that 

 of any other department of the State government, because, 

 under the statute, there is broad educational work as well 

 as police duties. No other State department having police 

 duties is required to do similar work along the line of col- 

 lecting and disseminating information. During the last 

 year the amount of educational work done has been less 

 than usual, though the general agent has responded to about 

 the averao-e number of calls for addresses. In the discharo'e 

 of this part of his work, he has spoken to 20 different gath- 

 erings. Last year the number was 14, and the year before 

 it was 19. At a number of these meetings object-lesson 

 demonstrations of the Babcock test have been given, nearly 

 150 samples of milk having been tested in that manner. 

 The general agent has again been called upon to award the 

 sweepstakes dairy prize for the Worcester South Agricul- 

 tural Society, based on the amount of butter fat produced 

 on the grounds of the society by individual cows in twenty- 

 four hours. The following table gives the results of the 

 test for the past year : — 



