REPORT OF THE MIRY BUREAU. 



During the year just closed 7,922 inspections lia\e been 

 made, 220 cases entered in court, of which 218 were won, 

 and 35 meetings have been addressed by the general agent. 

 Of the court cases, 139 were for violation of the oleomarga- 

 rine laws, 77 for violation of the renovated butter law, and 

 4 for violation of the milk adulteration law. The Bureau 

 has inspected most of the creameries and large milk-distrib- 

 uting depots in the State, and has found them, as a rule, in 

 a satisfactory condition. There are now 12 co-operative and 

 11 proprietary creameries in the State. Two creameries 

 that in Shelburne Falls and the Greylock in Cheshire, have 

 gone out of business within the year. 



While the Bureau has done much in the way of protecting 

 the public from fraud and the makers and dealers in butter 

 from unfair competition, and while more than the usual 

 amount of educational work has been done, but little milk 

 work has been attempted, and this for two reasons. First, 

 our appropriation is insufficient, and second, the field is well 

 covered by another State department and by local milk in- 

 spectors, now generally active all over the Commonwealth. 

 The few cases we have undertaken have been upon request. 



The Dairy Situation. 

 In view of the present transportation situation and the 

 fact that approximately three-fourths of all the milk 

 brought into Boston by rail and nearly all of that brought 

 in from without the State is now pasteurized before being 

 offered for sale, the hope of the Massachusetts farmer seems 

 to lie in whatever demand there is for a good clean article of 



