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Lectures, Conferences and Conventions. 



The general agent has delivered fifteen lectures on dairy 

 subjects during the year. He represented the Board of Agri- 

 culture at two conferences on food production with the Fed- 

 eral Food Administration and the Department of Agriculture, 

 at Washington, District of Columbia. He also represented 

 the Dairy Bureau at a mass meeting of Dairy Interests, held 

 at Columbus, Ohio, in connection with the National Dairy 

 Show. 



Agent A. W. Lombard attended the annual meeting of the 

 International Association of Dairy and Milk Inspectors at 

 Washington, District of Columbia, where he read a paper and 

 was elected president of the association for the ensuing year. 



INVESTIGATIONS. 



The chairman of the Bureau, wdth one member and the 

 general agent, spent several days investigating creameries, milk 

 stations and dairies in Vermont, with a view to obtaining first- 

 hand information as to the result of co-operation as practiced 

 in that State. The following cities and towns were visited: 

 Brattleboro, Wardsboro, South Londonderry, Peru, Pawlet, Ira, 

 Rutland, Bridport, Vergennes, Burlington, St. Albans, Enos- 

 burg Falls, East Berkshire, Alberg, South Hero, Richmond, 

 Bolton, Stow, East Hardwick and St. Johnsbury. At Rich- 

 mond the Bureau found an ideal milk plant, a real model of its 

 kind. A similar plant has just been completed at East Berk- 

 shire, and we were informed that one w^as to be built this 

 winter at Newport. What was once pronounced by a Federal 

 inspector as the cleanest creamery in the United States is at 

 Wardsboro, and is operated by a woman. Miss Hanna Halonen. 

 The product of this creamery is sold in North Adams, Mas- 

 sachusetts. We were especially impressed with the excellent 

 butter made at Mount Mansfield Creamery in Stow, a sample 

 of which won first prize at the recent Eastern States Exposi- 

 tion held in Springfield, Massachusetts. The Lamoile Valley 

 Creamery at East Hardwick was particularly interesting from 

 the fact that it is the largest creamery in New England. No 

 one can travel over the State of Vermont without being im- 



