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Jersey cows, 2 Ayrshire cows and one bull calf, and 3 Guernsey 

 cows. The beef animals were excellent representatives of the 

 Hereford breed and the Aberdeen-Angus breed. A number of 

 schools took advantage of this opportunity and a great many 

 classes visited this exhibit to study the different breed char- 

 acteristics. The milk produced at three milkings each day was 

 handled at a model dairy house. Here the milk was strained, 

 cooled, bottled and capped in full view of the visitors, who were 

 eager to secure a drink of freshly produced milk. A fully 

 equipped dairy-testing laboratory was of considerable interest 

 to a great many people. 



Much interest was manifest in the beef animals. People 

 returned time after time to ask questions about them. 



At the Eastern States Exposition a three-room dairy plant 

 was in full operation daily during the week. A herd of 15 

 dairy cows was stabled in a tent supplied with modern dairy 

 barn equipment, swinging stanchions, individual drinking cups, 

 cork brick floor and concrete gutter. This herd was milked 

 three times daily. The milk was taken to the dairy plant in 

 the Massachusetts Building, where it was again strained, cooled, 

 bottled, capped and made available to visitors, who were eager 

 to drink freshly produced milk. 



At the Union Agricultural Meeting in January, and at the 

 Sturbridge and Barre Fairs in the fall, a special exhibit was 

 put on with maps showing the number of pure-bred animals, of 

 each of the five dairy breeds, shipped from Massachusetts, and 

 the States to which they went. Over 5,000 animals were 

 shipped to 46 States. 



During the year twenty-three meetings were attended, — 

 grange, county breeders' clubs, dairymen's meetings, — at which 

 addresses were made on Massachusetts pure-bred dairy cattle, 

 cow-testing association work, co-operative milk marketing, and 

 purpose of county breeders' clubs. The classes of dairy cattle 

 were placed at one agricultural fair. 



Bovine Tuberculosis Situation. 



The live-stock owners of Massachusetts were eager to avail 



lemselves of the provisions of chapter 353, "Relative to com- 



snsation by the Commonwealth in certain cases where animals 



. fected with bovine tuberculosis are killed," which became 



