No. 4.] REPORT OF DAIRY BUREAU. 315 



tAvo years is encouraging, inasmuch as the number of cases 

 of violations of the renovated l)utter law found in this State 

 during 1904 and 1905 together were 35 less tlian the number 

 in 1903. 



Educational. 



For the past tliree years tliis Bureau, through lectures 

 delivered by its general agent, and otherwise, has been en- 

 couraging the fiirmers to produce a better dairy product, 

 especially a cleaner milk. We believe that it is for the in- 

 terest of the dairyman, as well as for every one else that this 

 be accomplished, and we do not l)elieve that the production 

 of clean milk is a prohibitively expensive operation. There 

 can be no nobler work done by any one than improving the 

 quality of food for our people, especially such an important 

 and universal food as milk, thus adding to the health, hap- 

 piness and general welfare of the human race. Milk can 

 never be too clean or in too good condition for human con- 

 sumption. The mortality of young children is yet far too 

 high, especially in our large cities. Every possible effort 

 should be made on the part of an intelligent public to im- 

 prove this condition. 



But, meanwhile, let us not be unmindful of existing facts, — 

 facts sometimes overlooked when this question is consid- 

 ered, — one of which is, that there has been a constant im- 

 provement in the quality and condition of milk furnished 

 the peddlers for the city of Boston for the last thirty years 

 at least. Of this we have personal knowledge. The gen- 

 eral public little realizes the efforts put forth during that 

 time by the various milk contractors and others to urge bet- 

 ter care at the farms, and these same contractors have spared 

 no expense to improve their own plants year after year, by 

 adding latest and most up-to-date appliances.^ Only those 

 who have personally observed thi'ough the period mentioned 

 know these facts ; the general public has hardly kept informed. 

 Then, too, a considerable number of well-known, public-spir- 



^ Mr. Tower, late of the firm of C. Brigham Company, spent most of his time 

 during the last few years of his life in going ahout among farmers and improving 

 conditions at the stables, and as a result many separate milk rooms were built. 



