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and vicinity, could have the facts so impressed upon them 

 that they would become largo consumers of skim-milk. It 

 would relieve the situation very much. There is altogether 

 too much adulteration of whole milk with skim-milk. As 

 the situation is to-day, there is a great deal of skim-milk 

 coming in and replacing so much whole milk, and making 

 the surplus larger. When milk has been adulterated with 

 water, chemists can with difficulty determine the fact that 

 the whole milk has been watered. If to three or four cans 

 of whole milk a can of skim-milk is added, the relation of 

 the different constituents is such that a chemist would hardly 

 want to go into court and say that milk was adulterated. 

 The result is that we have reason to believe that to-day 

 large quantities of skim-milk are used in Boston to adul- 

 terate whole milk and to add to the general demoralization 

 of the market there. 



The Chairman. There is now an opportunity for ques- 

 tions. 



Mr. E. W. Wood (of West Newton). As several of the 

 members of the Board are obliged to leave at the close of 

 this session, I desire to say at this time that when the 

 Board at its annual meeting decided to come to Franklin 

 County to hold its winter meeting, at the home of the dean 

 of the Board, they anticipated that they would have an un- 

 usually agreeable and profitable meeting. I need not say 

 that they have had such a one. The interest and attendance 

 during the sessions has fully proved it, and I desire to offer 

 in behalf of the members of the Board, a vote of thanks to 

 the Greenfield Club for the entertainment last evening, and 

 also to the citizens of Greenfield for the ample and pleasant 

 accommodations they have furnished for holding our daily 

 sessions. 



Secretary Sessions. I desire to second that resolution. 

 I want to say that it was with a great deal of pleasure that 

 I received for the Board of Agriculture the invitation from 

 the Franklin County Agricultural Society. I feel that 

 Franklin County is the ideal place in all Massachusetts to 

 hold an agricultural meeting. It is the county leading in 

 agricultural interests, having the best stock and producing 

 the largest amount of dairy products. It has perhaps the 



