No. 4.] REPORT OF THE DAIRY BUREAU. 245 



Legislation. 

 Last year this Bureau introduced a bill in the Legislature 

 modifying the condensed milk law which was enacted in ac- 

 cordance with the suggestions offered. This year we find that 

 the Bureau has reached the point where more money is needed 

 to carry on its police and office work and to add to its efficiency 

 in endeavoring to secure more satisfactory dairy conditions in 

 Massachusetts. We therefore ask that section 12 of chapter 

 89 of the Revised Laws, as amended by chapter 416 of the 

 Acts of 1908, be amended by striking out the word "eight" 

 in the first line, and inserting in place thereof the word "ten", 

 so that said section shall read as follows : — 



Section 12. The bureau may expend not more than ten thousand 

 dollars annually in its work, and it may co-operate with the state 

 board of health and with inspectors ot milk, but it shall not interfere 

 with the duties of such board or officers. It shaU annually, before 

 the fifteenth day of January, report to the general court in detail 

 the number of agents, assistants, experts and chemists employed by 

 it, with their expenses and disbursements, of all investigations made 

 by it, of all cases prosecuted with the results thereof, and other infor- 

 mation advantageous to the dairy industry. 



Also that section 2 of said chapter 416 be amended by striking 

 out the word "eight" in the first line, and inserting in place 

 thereof the word "ten", so that said section shall read as 

 follows : — 



Section 2. The said sum of ten thousand dollars shall be allowed 

 from the first day of December, nineteen hundred and twelve. 



Personnel of the Bureau. 

 The personnel of the Bureau is as follows: Charles M. Gard- 

 ner of Westfield, chairman, George W. Trull of Tewksbury 

 and Omer E. Bradway of Monson. The executive force, 

 agents, chemists, etc., are as follows: executive officer and 

 secretary, J. Lewis Ellsworth; general agent, P. M. Harwood; 

 B. F. Davenport, M.D., of Boston, and F. W. Farrell of the 

 Emerson Laboratory, Springfield, have done the chemical 

 work; A. W. Lombard has continued to act as agent, and five 

 others have been temporarily employed. 



