No. 4.] REPORT OF DAIRY BUREAU. 405 



Condensed milk is of more varying composition than 

 market cream, and in many cases the percentage of fat is 

 not increased by the condensation process in the same ratio 

 as the solids not fat are increased. Condensed milk should 

 mean milk which has been thickened by driving off the 

 water. If any of the fat has been removed, that should be 

 stated. When condensed milk is artificially sweetened, that 

 fact should also be stated on the label. Usage has led the 

 consumer to expect condensed milk to be sweetened. There 

 is no need to add sugar to preserve condensed milk. Some 

 good brands contain no sugar. When condensed milk is 

 sugared, the consumer can add five to eight volumes of water, 

 and still have a product which does not appear over thin. 



Educational. 



The educational part of our work has not been neglected. 

 The acting executive officer has answered twenty-five calls 

 to address various gatherings. He has also been called upon 

 several times to test milk at dairies with the Babcock tester. 

 He has also made tests of milk and cream brought to him. 

 During the summer offers were made to the New England 

 Milk Producers' Union and to the Massachusetts Creameries 

 Association to hold a series of combination dairy institutes 

 with each organization. The offers were gratefully received. 

 As a result, four profitable, well-attended creamery institutes 

 were held at Granby, Enfield, Cummmgton and Easthamp- 

 ton, in co-operation with the creameries' association. The 

 institutes afforded an opportunity to the farmers who pro- 

 duce cream to meet practical buttermakers and Dr. J. B. 

 Lindsey. Here the actual problems which perplex them 

 were talked over, much interest aroused, and we believe con- 

 siderable good done. 



The representative of the Bureau has acted as expert judge 

 at the exhibition of the Worcester South Agricultural So- 

 ciety, to award prizes for the cow producing the greatest 

 amount of butter fat in twenty-four hours on the society's 

 grounds. The testing was done with the Babcock tester in 

 the exhibition hall, before all who wished to witness it, with 

 the following result : — 



