222 BOAKD OF AGRICULTUKE. [Pub. Doc. 



REPORT OF THE DAIRY BUREAU. 



To the Senate and House of Bepref^entatives of the Commonwealth of 



Massachusetts, 



The third year of the existence of the Dairy Bureau has 

 witnessed no change in the membership of the Bureau or its 

 executive officers. The work has continued alonsj the 

 general lines indicated by previous reports, but extended 

 and broadened as a result of increased experience. Ad- 

 ditional workers have been employed in both the educational 

 and police departments. But there comes a time when the 

 expansion due merely to the increased effectiveness of 

 greater experience must cease. It costs money to employ 

 lecturers, agents, chemists and others. As we said last 

 year, $4,000 is a very small sum for the duties imposed on 

 us by statute. In the educational field there is need of 

 additional work, particularly at the present time, when the 

 Cattle Commissioners are doing so much to prevent the 

 spread of tuberculosis ; their work is only half done if it is 

 not supplemented by the gospel of cleanliness, pure air and 

 plenty of sunlight. In our report for 1892 we said that the 

 keeping qualities of milk depend on cleanliness ; but besides 

 this the germs of disease are kept in abeyance by wholesome 

 food, air, sunlight and clean stables. Then in our police work 

 we can keep several agents profitably employed all of the 

 time. We have been unable to give any attention to the en- 

 forcement of the milk laws, but could do much in this direc- 

 tion, to the ultimate advantage of the consumer and producer. 

 "We renew our suggestion of last year, that the appropria- 

 tion for the Bureau be increased, with a repeal of the 

 requirement that the Board of Health expend a majority of 

 its funds on dairy products, — with this object in view : that 

 the Bureau should prosecute commercial frauds, while the 



