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emphasized the necessity for proper remuneration to the pro- 

 ducer for milk and other dairy products, also the superior 

 worth of clean, fresh milk and the importance of its production 

 in Massachusetts. 



Leaflets A, B, C and D on milk, by P. jNI. Harwood, were 

 printed, and many thousand copies were distributed during the 

 year. The Bureau has also published Circular No. 11, "Some 

 Bacteriological Aspects of Clean Milk Inspection," by Charles 

 E. ^Marshall, Ph.D., and Circular No. 13, "The Clean Milk 

 Contest," by P. M. Harwood. 



By appointment of His Excellency Governor Walsh, the gen- 

 eral agent spent a portion of the summer in Europe studying 

 dairy conditions. His trip -u^s cut short on account of the 

 European war, nevertheless he obtained much valuable informa- 

 tion, which will be of great use to him in the conduct of his 

 official duties. 



By invitation, the Bureau co-operated with the Boston 

 Chamber of Commerce in its recent milk hearings in Massa- 

 chusetts where the chairman of the Bureau presided. The 

 general agent attended the following hearings: Boston and 

 Worcester, ^Massachusetts; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; New- 

 port, Augusta and Auburn, Maine; and Bellows Falls, Vermont. 



The Bureau takes this opportunity to express its appreciation 

 and thanks to Professor J. A. Foord of the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College, who acted without compensation as judge in 

 Classes 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the encouragement of practical dairy 

 contest, and to Professor Simeon C. Keith of the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, judge in Class 1, both of whom 

 showed excellent judgment in the discharge of their duties. 

 The Bureau also feels under special obligation to Mr. G. L. 

 Berg, milk inspector of Worcester, who did much to make a 

 success of the clean milk exhibit at the Worcester meeting, and 

 to those milk inspectors of the State who co-operated with the 

 Bureau in carrying on the clean milk contest during the year. 



