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cheese produced and the value of the products and a comparison 

 of the industry here with that in some other countries. We 

 have issued one on the different forms in which cheese is 

 manufactured; another one on how to sell good cheese and how 

 to avoid being deceived by unscrupulous dealers. We have 

 issued a popular bullentin in the Farmer's Bullentin Series on 

 Facts about Milk, tried to tell the people in the cities how they 

 should take care of milk and that they should use much more of 

 it than they do. We have issued several bulletins relating to 

 the dairy in various sections of the United States. We have 

 issued a bulletin on dairy schools and their work. We have 

 issued a bullentin on creameries and cheese factories, one on 

 taking care of dairy utensils intended specially for creamery 

 men. Another one is on the dairy herd, this is in the Farmer's 

 Bullentin Series, and would be specially useful to farmers 

 building up a herd; it treats of the formation and care of the 

 herd and is written by the Chief of the Division, Major Alvord, 

 Another one is on making butter on the farm by Mr. Goodrich, 

 of Wisconsin, another one on taking care of the milk on the 

 farm before it is delivered to the factory. Another one is on 

 the cheese factory. 



All of these bulletins are delivered to persons whose names 

 are on our mailing list. If there is any one here to-night, who 

 wants any of those bulletins and he will drop a postal card to 

 the Dairy Division Department Agriculture, Washington, D. C, 

 they will be sent to him. 



I might refer to some of the work which we have in hand. 

 We are compiling all the dairy laws in force in each state in this 

 country and we expect to supplement by adding those that are 

 enacted later and noting changes. We are studying dairy 

 herds, finding out where most of our products are produced, 

 where there is a surplus of production and where the production 

 is too small. Most of you have noticed accounts in the papers 

 of the experiments which have been made in exports during the ad- 

 ministration of the present secretary. One of the first things 

 he did when he came into office was to look over the market for 

 our butter, and he decided that we should be able to send but- 



