No. 4.] REPORT OF DAIRY BUREAU. 239 



The educational work of the past year has consisted in 

 studying the prol)lems peculiar to l)oth the consuming and 

 producing dairy interests of this State. It has sixty-three 

 cities and towns of over five thousand population, with a 

 million and a half people to be supplied with fresh and 

 pure milk each day ; thirty co-operative creameries and five 

 proprietary creameries ; a cow population of 186,806 

 animals and the commercial centre of New England in its 

 midst; within a radius of twelve miles is a population of 

 three-quarters of a million people. In connection with 

 this educational work thirty meetings have been addressed, 

 bulletins have been issued, fourteen creamery inspections 

 have been made, and a butter exhibition has been held. 

 Much has been done to acquaint milk producers and milk 

 consumers with the varying qualities of milk, and the easy, 

 ready method of investigating them by the Babcock milk 

 tester, — a modern invention of untold importance, which 

 will revolutionize many practices. 



The police work has l)een mostly confined to an enforce- 

 ment of the oleomargarine laws. The appropriation pre- 

 cludes attention to both the milk and oleomargarine laws ; 

 and, as the Board of Health does more with the former, we 

 attend to the latter. Our work has been largely outside of 

 Boston. In this city the laws are so well executed by Dr. 

 Harrington, milk inspector, that it would be a waste of effort 

 to attempt much in this field. 



The following is a inore detailed report of our work. 



Co-operation with the Boston Milk Inspector. 

 Section 3, chapter 58, Acts of 1891, and section 2, chapter 

 310, Acts of 1884, give inspectors of milk authority to enter 

 all places where butter or imitations thereof are kept for 

 sale, and to take samples. These statutes say nothing about 

 the deputies or agents of milk inspectors, and attorneys have 

 questioned the authority of these agents. The law creating 

 the Dairy Bureau gives all needed power "to such agents, 

 and counsel as they shall duly authorize." Therefore, Dr. 

 Harrington, the Boston milk inspector, and all his deputies 

 and collectors, have been made agents of the Dairy Bureau. 

 This has also helped them in enforcing the milk laws, as, 



