Report of Clean INIilk Contest, Eastern Section, 



1913. 



The winner of the first prize in the eastern section, State 

 Board of Agriculture clean milk contest, 1913, was Mr. 

 Edmund B. Hutchins of Stoughton. Mr. Hutchins owns 

 a farm of 30 acres and keeps 14 cows. He has lived on his 

 present farm since 1909. In July, 1912, his barn was burned. 

 He then fixed over an old shed in which he now keeps his 

 cows. Since the cows have been thus housed he has won 

 four first prizes for clean milk as follows : at Amherst, 



Edmund B. Hutchins' Stable. 



Massachusetts Dairymen's Show, March, 1913, first prize- 

 in special class for milk from 10 cows, a Guernsey bull 

 calf, which in turn won first prize in his class at the 

 Brockton Fair in October and was later sold for $100; 

 at Brockton, Massachusetts Dairymen's Show, October, 

 1913, first prize in class 1, milk of 5 cows entered; at the 

 Massachusetts Dairymen's Show, State Board of Agri- 

 culture meeting, Springfield, December, 1913, first prize 

 in class 1, milk of 4 coavs entered; and the State Board of 

 Agriculture prize of §100 in the eastern section contest, 

 above noted, September, 1913. The total monej' value 

 of these prizes is $255. His bacteria count at Amherst. 



