364 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Educational Work. 



The field for labor along the line of educational work, a 

 duty imposed by statute upon this Bureau, is no less broad 

 and of no less importance than is the police side. A better 

 dairy product, put up in a better manner and in better 

 condition, handled with greater care, and finally fed more 

 wisely, will add not only to the enjoyment but also to the 

 health of the consuming public, and incidentally to the 

 financial benefit of the producers. The bet<t dairy product, 

 whether milk, cream, butter or cheese, has no competitor, 

 no imitator. "Were there no butter that needs "renovat- 

 ing," there would be no " renovated" butter. Were it not 

 that butter is often of an inferior cjuality, oleomargarine 

 would find little place in the markets of the Avorld, and the 

 possibility of palming it off "as and for butter" would be 

 ])ractically removed. It is along these lines that the Dairy 

 Bureau is interested in its educational duties, and is work- 

 ing so far as the limited funds at its disposal will allow. 



The general agent has addressed twenty meetings during 

 the year, and the chairman of the Bureau seven meetings. 

 Several of the more important milk depots and creameries 

 have been inspected by the Bureau, and it is with pleasure 

 that we note the interest in all matters appertaining to the 

 betterment of dairy products, and especially the improvement 

 noticeable in the handling of milk for the Boston market. 

 It is but a few years since when milk brouofht to Boston was 

 not as well cared for as it might have been, either at the farm 

 or in transit. To-day the milk contractors insist on sanitary 

 conditions at the farm Avhere the milk is produced, and year 

 by year there is improvement. There is also imjirovement at 

 the handling end, as any one can see by inspecting the various 

 milk depots. There is, however, still room for greater im-' 

 provenient. It is a long road to perfection, and the doctrine 

 of "clean milk" needs to be impressed upon all, until this 

 most useful and nourishing food, in Avhatevcr form, reaches 

 the consumer in its highest state of perfection. 



