No. 4.] EEPORT OF DAIRY BUREAU. 453 



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represent the dairy interests of the State at the meeting of 

 the Connecticut Dairymen's Association at Hartford, the New 

 Hampshire Board of Agriculture at the Weirs, and the 

 National Dairy Union at Chicago. I also responded to an 

 invitation to address a committee of the Rhode Island Legis- 

 lature on oleomargarine legislation, the laws of Massachusetts 

 and their enforcement. 



During the past year a compilation of the laws of the State, 

 with the court decisions thereon, has been prepared and 

 published. 



Suggestions. 



We continue of the opinion that the cause of honest and 

 wholesome dairy products would be enhanced by what seems 

 to us would be a better division of labor between this depart- 

 ment and the Board of Health. It seems to us that the 

 Board of Health ought not to be hampered by restrictive 

 legislation compelling it to expend a prescribed proportion 

 of its appropriation in the prosecution of commercial frauds, 

 particularly in view of the fact that the healthfulness of the 

 State's milk supply is being considered more than ever 

 before, that the great advances recently made in bacteriology 

 have given definite data to start with, and that there seems 

 a call from all parts of the State, noticeable at meetings of 

 medical associations, for an increased amount of work from 

 the health stand-point. If the labor could be divided so that 

 the Board of Health were free to do increased work alono; 

 the line which its name naturally suggests, while the detec- 

 tion of commercial frauds was in the hands of this Bureau, 

 we believe that great good would result. 



Our experience this year has brought to our attention the 

 fact that the size of the fines in oleomargarine cases places 

 them beyond the jurisdiction of trial justices. By a special 

 act their authority has been extended to include milk cases, 

 and we suggest that this statute be broadened so as to in- 

 clude all dairy products and imitations thereof. 



Finances. 

 The following is the manner in which the appropriation 

 of $7,000 has been expended during the past year : — 



