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of ascertaiuing the class of ingredients used and 

 whether or not such ingredients are being sold in com- 

 pliance with the food laws; giving attention to the 

 sale of soft drinks; inspection of labeling of dried 

 fruits and evaporated apple manufactures ; inspection 

 of the manufacture and sale of milk-powders and 

 maple products. 



THE CONSERVATION COMMISSION (See Fig. 35) 



This department of the State government touches 

 the individual farmer much less directly than does 

 the Council of Farms and Markets, since it deals 

 mostly with resources that are not the farmer's prop- 

 erty. The touch of the Conservation Commission 

 with natural resources through the supervision of 

 the forests, the fish and game, and the inland waters 

 has already been mentioned. 



By exercising the inspection and supervision that 

 are necessary to secure exemption or reduction in 

 taxes on forest lands, it aft'ects the farmer, and it aids 

 him by supplying seedling trees at cost, for plant- 

 ing purposes. It may be expected that the farm 

 woodlot will come to be looked on as a crop area as 

 much as is the land in potatoes, hay, or apples, and 

 there are indications that the net returns, though 

 longer delayed, may be comparable with those crops. 



The fish and game division aids the farmer in 

 conserving the wild life on the farm and in the 

 streams, that may be useful to him in protecting his 

 crops, and it^ aids him in securing to himself the 

 privileges to take game, animals, birds and fish on his 



