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as well as for the board of health. Dr. Itano has also prepared 

 several hundred legume cultures for distribution in the State. 

 Besides the test work of Dr. Itano, Mr. Hood has conducted the 

 monthly bacterial milk count for the town of Amherst through- 

 out the past year, and has also made the bacterial counts for 

 366 samples of milk offered in contest at the Farmers' Dairy 

 Show, Amherst, the Fitchburg Dairy Show, National Dairy 

 Show at Springfield and the Taunton Dairy Show. 



These are, I believe, in brief, the main activities of the de- 

 partment in its relation to the experiment station during the 

 past year. 



