DIVISION OP DAIBnKO AND ANIMAL HUSBA^TDRjf 



J. Poter ariffln. Director 



AMHUAL REPORT 



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July 1, 1962 - June 30« 1963 



At th« annual meeting of the Dairy Division - National Association 

 of State Departraents of Ap;rlculture, one of the subjects dlacuased was 

 the number and method of Inspecting dairy farms by the individual states 

 which sent represen atlv^s to this meeting. One of the delegates from 

 R mlrtweat^rn state thought that possibly I- assachuaetts was thirty years 

 ahead of his state In the inspection of "reserve" supplies of milk at 

 the fartn I'^vel. Ho was surprised to find that we insist on the same 

 sanitary requlrenents and equip ent for milk produced for manufacturing 

 purposes as we do for milk nr»oduced for fluid consumption* 



This division cooperated with the dairy divisions of most of the 

 I other New Fln.'^land states In drawing up a New England score sheet for do- 

 log fam inspection. This was a great help to the people in Rhode Is- 

 land. Our Milk Regulation Board, however, decided to retain the current 

 >^as3achu9etts score sheet for Naa^achusetts purposes. 



The Supreme Court of the United States handed down a decision in 

 the matter of the Lehigh Valley Case. This decision declared unconsti- 

 tutional the provisions of "compensatory payments" under the federal Kilk 

 Marketing Orders. Depending upon the supply of milk In some market of the 

 year, this could have a detrimental eooooMle effect on cur dairy farmers. 



During the fall of 1962 the level of Todlne 131 found In our milk 

 supr^lies rose. This was probably due to the heavy rains that came down 

 after clouds had carried this Iodine 131 half way around the world. It 

 was thought by many that posalbly the cause of all this was triggered 

 ^ by secret atomic experiments by the Russians. Although the Iodine 131 

 level did not rise to any dangerous degree. It did alert us to make ti^sts 

 more frequently. We cooperated with the State Department of Public Reelth 



