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BOARD OF AGKICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Dairy Meetings. 



The educational work done by the Bureau during the past 

 year has been chiefly at such meetings as the acting executive 

 officer could personally attend, thus carrying on this portion 

 of our work at a minimum of draft upon our appropriation. 

 Thirty-six dairy meetings have been held under the auspices 

 of the Bureau, of which he has addressed thirty-two. Other 

 speakers who have been employed for one or more meetings 

 are Mr. George L. Clemence and Mr. J. L. Ellsworth of 

 the Bureau, Dr. S. W. Abbott, secretary of the Board of 

 Health, Dr. J. B. Lindsey of the Hatch Experiment Station, 

 and Mr. Charles A. Dennen of the Cattle Commission. The 

 comprehensive language of the statute quoted above enables 

 dairy meetings to be held in connection with farmers' clubs, 

 granges, and at other places which could not be reached by 

 the regular institutes of the incorporated societies. Most of 

 these meetings during the past year were conducted with 

 charts, blackboards, milk tester, maps and other object- 

 lesson paraphernalia, and, so far as could be ascertained, the 

 meetings were well received. 



In connection with these meetings and with the general 

 work of the Bureau I have tested several hundred samples 

 of milk with the Babcock tester. I have been also called to 



