Part L] REPORT OF THE DAIRY BUREAU. 159 



butter, oleomargarine and renovated butter all in one year. So 

 far as butter is concerned this should never be the case in a 

 community where the population is increasing. Butter is a 

 relatively cheap, heat and energy producing food even at 

 present prices. 



Local Milk Inspectors. 

 The number of local milk inspectors in this State is increasing 

 each year, there now being one hundred more than in 1910. 

 Most of these men are doing excellent work in their respective 

 localities. They are intelligent, enthusiastic and ready to co- 

 operate and this Bureau has found them of great assistance in 

 promoting any work tending to improve the condition of the 

 milk supply. They have a strong State association. 



Personnel of the Bureau. 



The personnel of the Bureau is as follows: Omer E. Bradway 

 of Monson, chairman, George W. Trull of 'Cewksbury and 

 George E. Taylor, Jr., of Shelburne. The executive force, 

 agents, analysts, etc., are as follows: executive officer and secre- 

 tary, Wilfrid Wheeler; general agent, P. M. Harwood; analysts, 

 B. F. Davenport, M.D., Boston, and Gilbert L. Clark, Emerson 

 Laboratory, Springfield; agent, A. W. Lombard; and five others 

 have been employed temporarily. 



Mr. Charles M. Gardner of Westfield, who served as chairman 

 of the Bureau for several years, retired at the beginning of 

 1916. The State owes a debt of gratitude to Mr. Gardner 

 for his efiicient service during the troublesome years of dairy 

 agitation. 



Summary of Police Work. 



Total number of inspections, 5,661 ^ 



Number of inspections where no samples were taken, . . . 4,759 

 Number of samples of butter, oleomargarine and renovated 



butter, all purchased, 752 



Number of samples of milk and cream, 80 



Cases entered in court, 19 



Convictions, 19 



Addresses by general agent, 19 



> There were 70 extra samples taken during the year, therefore this number is .70 less than the 

 sum of the next three items. 



