REPORT OF CLEAN MILK CONTEST, 1913. 



BY P. M. HARWOOD. 



Chapter 96 of the Acts and Resolves of the Massachusetts 

 Legislature, 1913, entitled, " Resolve to provide for the 

 encouragement of dairying and the production of milk 

 and dairy products of superior quality," gave to the State 

 Board of Agriculture the sum of $15,000, of which not 

 over S5,000 could be expended in any one year. By vote 

 of the Board, the carrying out of the provisions of this 

 resolve was given to its Dairy Bureau. Accordingly, the 

 Bureau took up the work and laid out a campaign along 

 lines which, so far as we know, are practically new. The 

 following was issued in the month of August : — 



Notice to Massachusetts Dairymen. 



The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has given into the hands of 

 the State Board of Agriculture a sum not exceeding $5,000 annually 

 for tliree years, to be expended in the encouragement of practical dairj^- 

 ing and the production of milk and dairy products of superior quality 

 and cleanliness. 



This sum is only one-fifth of the amount originally asked for, and 

 on that account only a portion of the work originally intended can be 

 done. This year a beginning is made by offering prizes sufficiently 

 liberal to induce a spirited contest in cleanly methods, with a ^dew 

 of encouraging the habit of keeping dirt and flies out of milk and other 

 dairy products. 



A popular bulletin entitled, " Cost of a quart of milk," will be issued 

 if funds permit. Next year other phases of the question may be 

 taken up. 



The State Board of Agriculture, through its Dairy Bureau, offers 

 $2,550 in cash prizes for clean miUc. 



For convenience the State will be divided into two sections, viz., 

 eastern and western. The eastern section comprises the counties of 

 Essex, Middlesex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Bristol, Plymouth, Barnstable, 



