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133,875
113,750
50,911
Other cattle
53,132
46,420
39,932
16,536
Sheep
8,878
7,747
4,838
3,670
Swine
57,796
45,024
29,458
13,621
Total value.
$343,651
$316,253
$274,129
$153,640
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LIVE STOCK PRODUCTION Estimated Milk Production on Farms in 1918 and 1917
1918
1917
Number of milk cows.
1,791,155
1,784,570
Average production per cow, lbs.
4,870
4,780
Total production of milk, lbs ...
8,722,923,000
8,530,245,000
Average price of milk, dollars, per cwt.
$2.47
$2.10
Total farm value of milk, in dollars
$215,456,000
$179,135,000
ESTIMATED NUMBER AND VALUE OF LIVE STOCK SOLD FROM OR SLAUGHTERED ON FARMS IN 1918 AND 1917
Number
Value in dollars per head
Total value in dollars
1918
1917
1918
1917
1918
1917
Cattle
677,000
€60,000
77
64
$52,129,000
$42,240,000
Calves
603,000
520,000
16
14
9,648,000
7,280,000
Sheep
309,000
272,000
12
11
3,708,000
2,990,000
Swine
1,903,000
1,813,000
30
24
57,090,000
44,512,000
Total value.
$122,575,000
$97,024,000
SUMMARY OF TOTAL VALUE OF LIVE STOCK PRODUCTION FOR YEARS 1918 AND 1917
(Exclusive of poultry products and horses sold)
1918
1917
Total value of milk produced.
$215,456,000
$179,135,000
Total value of livestock sold or slaughtered.
122,575,000
97,024,000
Total value of wool clip.
1,824,000
1,452,000
Grand total.
$339,855,000
$277,681,000
.
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WISCONSIN BLUE BOOK.
CROP REPORT FOR 1917-18.
Compiled by Wisconsin Crop Reporting Service.
STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. SUMMARY.
The crop year 1917 showed phenomenal increases in agricultural pro- duction over the previous year. The principal crops were increased in acreage by 500,000 acres, or 61/2% more than the acreage of 1916. This increase was especially marked in the case of corn, wheat, and field beans. The acreage of potatoes was increased in the face of the most serious seed potato shortage of years. This increased acreage was made possible by the concerted efforts of all concerned working through the State Department of Agriculture to secure an effective distribution of the seed potatoes available. Seventy-four thousand dollars worth of potatoes were distributed.
The yields of all grain crops were well above normal, but the yield of corn was very low, as this crop was prevented from maturing by the extremely early and severe frosts. The yield of potatoes was very satisfactory, but 10 to 20 per cent of the entire crop was frosted in the field.
Increased production and high prices due to war conditions, accounted for the tremendous increase in the combined value of crops, amounting to 45.8% more than the value in 1916 and a total increase of nearly a hundred million dollars on the principal crops alone.
The crop year 1918 showed further increases in acreage of grain crops. This was especially true of spring wheat, as farmers had been urged to plant this crop to help in America's task of feeding the allied nations. An increased acreage of winter wheat had been planted in the fall of 1917, but due to winterkilling, nearly half of this acreage had to be abandoned and put into other crops. Winterkilling likewise de- creased the acreage of clover and timothy. The spring of 1918 saw the most acute seed corn shortage in the history of the state. Such seed corn as was for sale was held for exorbitant prices. The State and Federal Departments of Agriculture, through a concerted effort to secure seed from all possible sources, made up the deficit, so that a satisfactory acreage, 2% more than the acreage of 1916, was planted. $109,000.00 worth of seed corn was distributed to farmers of the state through the State Department of Agriculture. The combined acreage of the principal crops was increased by 1/2% (about 50,000 acres) over 1917. Emergency hay crops to replace the clover and timothy killed out during the winter totaling 47,000 acres brought this total to nearly 100,000 acres. This increase was extremely large when account is taken of the greatly reduced labor supply. Some 50,000 farm boys left the farms to enter the military service.
High yields of all crops except hay were produced in 1918. The yield of oats (46.6 bu. per acre) was the largest for any state and the largest in the history of Wisconsin. The total production of corn was the largest in the history of the state, despite the decreased acreage (compared with 1917). The production of wheat and rye was large enough to make Wisconsin self-sustaining (with regard to bread grains) for the first time in several decades. The shortage of tame hay was made up in large part by the use of emergency hay crops and by increased cutting of wild and marsh hays.
The value of the crops of 1918 reached the tremendous total of over 360 million dollars, an increase of 14% over 1917 and 67% over 1916.
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This increase was due largely to increased production, prices of the majority of crops, being somewhat less than in 1917 while oats and wheat showed only slight increases in price.
A tabulation covering the 15 principal Wisconsin crops follows:
ACREAGE, PRODUCTION AND VALUE OF WISCONSIN CROPS FOR 1916, 1917 AND 1918 WITH COMPARISONS
ACREAGE
Acreage 1916
Acreage 1917
Per cent increase 1916-1917
Acreage 1918
Per cent increase 1917-1918
Per cent increase 1916-1918
Corn
1,690,000
1,918,000
14
1,717,000
-10
2
Oats
2,200,000
2,250,000
2
2,364,000
5
7
Winter wheat
81,000
93,000
15
58,000
-38
-28
Spring wheat
107,000
146,000
36
348,000
138
225
Barley
610,000
600,000
-2
711,000
18
16
Buckwheat
20,000
23,000
15
40,000
74
100
Rye
375,000
410,000
9
436,000
6
16
Beans
18,000
33,300
85
21,000
-37
17
Clover and timothy
2,600,000
2,647,000
2
2,499,000
-6
4
Alfalfa
(1) ....
72,000
38,000
-47
Potatoes
290,000
307,000
6
295,000
-4
2
Tobacco
44,200
44,300
48,000
8
9
Sugar beets
15,000
16,200
8
18,500
14
23
Cabbage
12,800
16,700
30
15,000
-10
17
Hemp
1,200
7,000
484
7,500
7
525
Dry peas
50,000
53,400
7
66,000
24
32
Totals
8,114,200
8,636,900
6.5
8,682,000
0.5
7.0
PRODUCTION
Corn, bu.
60,840,000 42,196,000
-31
70,247,000
67
15
Oats, bu.
81,400,000
99,000,000
22
110,329,000
11
36
Winter wheat, bu.
1,539,000
2,232,000
45
1,285,000
-42
-17
Spring wheat, bu.
1,776,000
3,095,000
74
8,582,000
177
383
Barley, bu.
18,300,000
19,200,000
5
25,388,000
32
39
Buckwheat, bu.
280,000
281,000
635,000
125
126
Rye, bu.
6,075,000
7,585,000
25
7,661,000
1
26
Beans, bu.
249,000
140,000
-44
253,000
80
2
Clover and timothy, tons.
4,420,000
4,500,000
2
3,697,000
-18
-16
Alfalfa, tons
. (1) ....
209,000
95,000
-55
Potatoes, bu .:
13,630,000
34,998,000
157
33,178,000
-5
143
Tobacco, lbs.
55,753,000
45,885,000
-18
64,425,000
40
16
Sugar beets, tons
140,000
164,000
17
185,000
13
32
Cabbage, tons
66,500
126,000
89
126,000
89
Hemp, lbs.
1,560,000
7,000,000
337
7,125,000
2
357
Dry peas, bu.
650,000
783,000
20
1,146,000
46
76
VALUE
Corn
$55,973,000 $68,779,000
23
$91,321,000
33
63
Oats
41,514,000
65,340,000
57
73,920,000
13
78
Winter wheat
2,462,000
4,509,000
83
2,634,000
-42
7
Spring wheat
2,842,000
6,252,000
120
17,593,000
181
519
Barley
19,215,000
23,808,000
24
23,357,000
-2
22
Buckwheat
325,000
489,000
50
1,048,000
115
223
Rye
8,019,000
12,819,000
60
11,491,000
-10
44
Beans
1,376,000
1,744,000
27
1,164,000
-33
-15
Clover and timothy
51,272,000
77,850.000
52
79,855,000
. 3
56
Alfalfa
.(1) ....
4,765,000
3,040,000
-36
Potatoes
20,036,000
31,498,000
57
26,542,000
-16
32
Tobacco
6,959,000
8,030,000
16
19,327,000
140
178
Sugar beets
840,000
1,312,000
56
1,850,000
41
120
Cabbage
3,059,000
4,158,000
36
2,520,000
-39
-18
Hemp
113,000
595,000
427
637,500
7
464
Dry peas
2,275,000
3,328,000
46
4,011,000
20
76
Totals
216,280,000 315,276,000
45.8 360,310,000
14.3
66.0
1 Included under clover and timothy.
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YIELD PER ACRE AND FARM PRICE PER UNIT OF WISCONSIN CROPS FOR 1916. 1917, AND 1918
Yield per acre
Farm price, Dec. 1, in cents per unit
Unit
1916
1917
1918
10-yr. aver'ge
1916
1917
1918
Corn
36.0
22.0
40.5
33.3
$0.92
$1.63
$1.30
Oats
37.0
44.0
46.6
35.4
.51
.66
.67
Bu.
Winter wheat
19.0
24.0
22.0
20.4
1.60
2.02
2.05
Bu.
Spring wheat
16.6
21.2
24.6
18.4
1.60
2.02
2.05
Bu.
Barley
30.0
· 32.0
35.7
28.9
1.05
1.24
.92
Bu.
Buckwheat
14.0
12.2
15.9
14.9
1.16
1.74
1.65
Bu.
Rye
16.2
18.5 "
17.6
1.32
1.69
1.50
Bu.
Beans
13.8
4.2
12.0
17.4 ... (1) ..
25.53
212.44
24.60
Bu.
Clover and timothy
1.70
1.70
1.37
1.52
211.60
217.30
221.60
Tons
Alfalfa
(1) ..
2.90
2.50
. (1).
. (1) . .
222.60
232.10
Tons
Potatoes
47
114
112
99
1.47
.90
.80
Bu.
Tobacco
1,270
1,000
1,330
1,138
12.5
17.5
30.0
Lbs.
Sugar beets
9.33
10.13.
10.00
... (1) ..
. . (1) ..
26.00 246.00
28.00 233.00
210.00 220.00
Ton
Hemp
1,300
1,000
950
.. (1) ..
7.2
8.5
8.9
Lbs.
Dry peas
13.0
14.7
17.3
... (1) ..
23.50
24.25
23.50
Lbs.
1 Statisties not available. .
2 Dollars per unit.
STATE BANKING DEPARTMENT.
Abstract of reports of the 791 state and mutual savings banks and trust companies of Wisconsin, at the close of business December 31, 1918.
Resources
Liabilities
Loans and discounts.
$226,134,602.92 880,967.53
Capital stoek paid in.
..
$26,297,650.00 9,097,659.86
State, municipal and other bonds
34,003,834.99
Undivided profits, less cur- rent expenses and taxes paid
5,198,993.39
U. S. bonds, cert. of ind.
37,194,297.91 873,273.84
Dividends unpaid
Individual deposits subject to check
116,052,575.89
Other real estate owned ..
Demand certificates of deposit
23,377,986.24
Due from approved reserve banks .
48,230,273.00
Time certifieates of deposit. Savings deposits
68,043,731.85
Checks on other banks and cash items .
2,943,736.94
Cashiers' checks
1,868,512.67
Exchanges for clearing house
2,305,444.72
Special
1,066,452.90 299,664.91
Gold coin and certificates. Silver coin
1,064,063.89
Due as executor, adminis- trator, guardian, etc ... . .
1,377,026.55
Niekels and eents.
Notes and bills rediscounted Bills payable
6,909,603.70
Expense account
7,887,071.00 153,092.63 27,815.90 149,737.36
Liberty bond account.
2,663,439.50
Other resources
Other liabilities
73,742.58
Total.
$374,103,940.64
Total.
$374,103,940.64
Ton
Cabbage
5.20
7.50
8.40
Due to banks-deposits.
7,170,933.96 356,445.40
W. S. eert. and thrift stps Stocks and other securities .. Banking house, furniture and fixtures
7,206,418.90 999,595.42
Due from other banks
3,006,220.19
Certified cheeks
165,705.94
Debentures
443,465.03
1,043,493.50
Postal savings
U. S. and national currency.
3,715,078.11
99,925,272.16
Overdrafts
Surplus fund
Bu.
DEPARTMENTS OF STATE GOVERNMENT
ABSTRACTS OF STATEMENTS OF 142 NATIONAL BANKS OF WISCONSIN AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS NOVEMBER 1, 1918
Resources
Liabilities
Loans and discounts.
$154,502,000 276,000
Capital stock paid in
$19,365,000 8,877,000
Customer's liability under
Undivided profits, less
letters of credit.
122,000
expenses and taxes paid ... Interest and discount collected
5,469,000
Customer's liability account of "acceptances"
1,478,000
or credited but not earned. Amount reserved for taxes
258,000
U. S. bonds and certificates of indebtedness
29,275,000
accrued
491,000
Liberty loan bonds.
20,457,000
Amount reserved for all
Other bonds, securities, etc. (other than stocks).
29,222,000
Circulation outstanding
567,000 12,374,000
Stocks other than federal re- serve bank stock ..
570,000
Amount due to federal reserve bank
205,000
Stock of federal reserve bank.
843,000
Net amounts due to national banks
7,478,000
Furniture and fixtures
485,000 615,000
Net amounts due to banks, bankers and trust companies Demand deposits
18,356,000
Items with federal reserve bank in process of collection Cash in vault.
1,595,000
United States bonds borrowed
1,155,000
Net amounts due from national banks
26,099,000
Bills payable, other than with federal reserve bank .. Bills payable with federal reserve bank
584,000
Net amounts due from banks, bankers and trust compa- nies
4,030,000
10,958,000
Exchanges for clearing house
2,016,000
Letters of credit and travel- ers' checks outstanding .. . . "Acceptances"
124,000
Outside checks and other cash items
642,000
Liabilities other than those above stated
6,736,000
Redemption fund and due
649,000
Total.
$298,978,000
Interest earned but not collected
347,000
Liabilities for rediscounts, in- cluding those with federal reserve bank
15,840,000
War savings certificates and thrift stamps actually owned Other assets
206,000
24,000
Total
$298,978,000
105,324,000
Lawful reserve with federal reserve bank
12,430,000
Time deposits
89,619,000
United States deposits.
9,390,000
6,864,000
Other bonds borrowed.
170,000
Checks on other banks in the same place
620,000
1,478,000
from U. S. treasurer ..
CHARITABLE AND PENAL INSTITUTIONS.
The State Board of Control is a paid board of five members-four men and one woman. The term of membership is five years ;- one member being appointed each year by the Governor. It is the administrative board for all the State Charitable and Penal Institutions. The chief duties of the Board with reference to the several Institutions is to administer, supervise, inspect, purchase supplies, audit bills and to transfer inmates to and from the different institutions. The Board of Control further acts as a board of parole, a commission in lunacy, a probation board, a board of relief and supervises the administration of the Mothers Pension Law. It is through this Board that the law for the sterilization of defectives is administered.
The county asylums for chronic insane, county tuberculosis sanatoria. Milwaukee County House of Correction, Milwaukee Hospital for the In-
Banking house
5,611,000
Other real estate owned.
interest accrued
Overdrafts
Surplus fund .
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sane, the county and city poorhouses, county jails and police stations are all subject to inspection by representatives of the State Board of Control.
GENERAL INFORMATION CONCERNING STATE INSTITUTIONS UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE STATE BOARD OF CONTROL, YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1918
Name of Institution
Location
Superintendent
Aver- age inmate popu- lation
Per capita opera- tion cost per week
Acre- age
(a) Wisconsin State Hos- pital for the Insane .... Northern Hospital for the Insane.
Mendota
Frank I. Drake ..
655
5.25
409
Winnebago
Adin Sherman
632
5.46
596
Wisconsin School for the Deaf ...
Delavan
T. Emery Bray ..
177
7.30
33
Wisconsin School for the Blind ... .
Janesville
J. T. Hooper
125
11.36
66
Wisconsin Industrial
School for Boys ...
Waukesha
A. J. Hutton.
412
5.57
498}
(b) Wisconsin State
Waupun
Henry Town.
852
5.62
375
(c) State Public School.
Sparta.
L. H. Prince.
211(c)
6.22
234
Wisconsin Home for Feeble-Minded
Chippewa Falls ..
A. W. Wilmarth.
1,130
3,72
1,014
(d) Wisconsin State Re- formatory
Green Bay
R. M. Coles
273
7.98
346
Wisconsin State Tuber- culosis Sanatorium ...
Wales.
R. L. Williams ..
187
14.38
210
Central State Hospital for the Criminal Insane (e) Wisconsin Industrial Home for Women
Waupun
Dr. J. F. Brown.
100
7.90
72
Taycheedal
*James Keough.
244₺
(f) Southern Wisconsin Home for Feeble-
Union Grove ... Tomahawk Lake
H. C. Werner
513₺
Minded and Epileptic .. Tomahawk Lake Camp .. (g) Wisconsin Workship for the Blind ..
Milwaukee
O. Kustermann.
Wisconsin Industrial School for Girls.
Milwaukee
Mary J. Berry
232
*Caretaker.
(a) The Psychiatric Institute is maintained in connection with the Wisconsin State Hospital at Mendota. Free Wasserman tests are given here, defectives are sterilized, and special care and attention with refer- ence to the healing of mental diseases constitute the chief functions of this Institute.
(b) The Binder Twine Plant, operated at the State Prison, produced during the year ending June 30, 1918, 5,240,470 pounds of twine. This output has met with very ready sale and is said to be of superior quality. A visit to the twine plant reminds one of a visit to a commercial indus- try rather than to a department of a criminal institution. The willing- ness with which the convicts perform their labor is remarkable. The Prison also operates with convict labor a shoe shop which supplies shoes for the inmates at all the State institutions. Practically all the vari- ous accounting and office forms used by the several state institutions are printed in the Prison print shop. A creamery and another industry in the nature of a tin shop, which proposes to make automobile license plates, are also operated with convict labor. Convicts from the Wiscon-
.F. A. Reich
18
64.7
Prison ....
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sin State Prison have also been used for quite a bit of state road work in Wisconsin during the past few years. A major portion of the labor at the Industrial Home for Women at Taycheedah was performed by convicts. So, also, was the labor at the Southern Wisconsin Home for Feeble- Minded and Epileptic at Union Grove.
(c) The figures given for the State Public School include the crippled and deformed children.
(d) The Wisconsin State Reformatory has an industry in the nature of a broom plant where brooms for state and county institutions are manufactured. The Reformatory tailor shop produces inmate clothing not only for the Reformatory inmates but for those of the other insti- tutions. A granite shop is also operated at the Reformatory. These industries are all operated with inmate labor. This affords a whole- some productive outlet for the inmates and at the same time teaches them a useful trade.
(e) The Industrial Home for Women is still in process of construc- then and is not yet ready to receive inmates.
(f) The Southern Wisconsin Home for Feeble-Minded and Epileptic was opened for inmates in February, 1919, with the transfer of 62 patients from the Wisconsin State Home for Feeble-Minded at Chippewa Falls.
(g) The Wisconsin Workshop for the Blind affords employment in basketry, rattan and willow work for adult blind. It does not niain- tain its workers.
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
Functions: The Civil Service Commission is to the administration of the state government what an Employment and Personnel department is to the success of a large private business.
The Commission examines and rates candidates for positions in the classified service of the state; furnishes state officers upon request, with lists of persons eligible to appointment to the positions in question; checks and approves the pay rolls of all departments and institutions in so far as they concern those in the classified service; determines proper classification of service positions according to duties performed; passes on transfers and promotions within the classified service; keeps service records of employes; investigates claims of inefficiency and unfair treatment; and arranges with the university for practical train- ing courses for state employes.
In the state service there are 4101 regular employes including the faculties of the university and other educational institutions. Of this number 2,597 performing approximately 225 different types of work come directly under the operation of the civil service law. The total number of separate employments made during the past two years, 1917-1918, under the provisions of the civil service law was 8,866. This includes every case of employment by the state no matter for how short a period and each repeated employment of the same individual figures in the total.
To fill the positions under civil service the Commission holds about 85 competitive examinations a year. Those qualified are certified to ap- pointing authorities for positions in order of their rank, thus furnishng the state highly efficient employes.
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CONSERVATION COMMISSION.
The Conservation Commission is one of the departments of the state government which is self-sustaining, in fact during the year 1918, the appropriation for the various activities of the Commission was $217,000, while it collected in fees, licenses, fines, etc., which were turned over to the state treasury more than $244,000, thus netting the state more than $27,000 through its activities.
The Commission has the administration of all laws pertaining to the wild life of the state, fish and game, the state parks, forests, etc., and through the Conservation Wardens, these laws, admittedly the best of any state in the Union, are being enforced.
The following tables give an idea of the work of the commission and of the value of the protection of wild life in the state:
Total appropriation for carrying on the department of the Conservation Commission during the year 1918.
$217,000.00
Total receipts accruing to the department (classified as follows):
Nonresident anglers' licenses.
$20,502.12
Lake Michigan, Superior and Green Bay licenses. 7,481.04
Lake Pepin, St. Croix and Mississippi river licenses 2,826.50
Rough fish (Winnebago county waters) 1,083.80
Rough fish (other waters)
15,276.55
Resident hunting licenses
108,330.50
Nonresident hunting licenses.
6,400.50
Duplicate licenses
170.00
Settlers' licenses
514.00
Confiscations
5,082.87
Wardens' fees
1,011.89
Set line licenses.
1,302.15
Whitefish and Cisco licenses, registration fees, etc.
1,213.17
Concessions from park lands ...
1,791.19
Money held in trust (released).
1,550.00
Island leases and nursery stock, land sales.
4,485.45
Resident trapping license.
22,240.31
Nonresident clamming licenses
3,050.00
Guides' licenses
650.00
Beaver trapping licenses
250.00
Deer tags
5,359.34
Fines imposed (credited to school fund)
33,453.34
Total.
$244,024.72
Total disbursements
$217,666.47
Unexpended balance July 1, 1918.
1,475.53
$219,142.00
Total number of the different varieties of fry and fingerling planted during the year ending June 30, 1918, classified as follows:
Brook trout, advanced fry.
3,086,200
Rainbow trout, advanced fry.
4,415,750
Brook trout, fingerling ....
23,250
Rainbow trout, fingerling.
28,565
Wall-eyed pike fry.
197,750,000
Lake trout fry
47,063,000
Whitefish fry
18,600,000
Black bass fry
498,000
Black bass fingerling.
16,200
Black bass, adult
1,300
Pickerel fry
160,000
Muskellunge fry
140,000
Croppies, fingerling
10,800
Total
271,796,565
Total amount of rough fish caught from inland waters.
1,559,317 lbs.
Sold for
$121,486.82
Revenue to the state from the sale of rough fish taken from inland waters
$16,360.35
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Total amount of fish caught in outlying waters 19,808,613 lbs.
Sold for
$1,244,768.68
Revenue accruing to the state from the sale of fish caught in outlying
waters
$10,307.54
Forestry Division-
Total shipment of planting stock from state forest nursery at Trout
Lake, also Tomahawk Lake nursery ..
308,988
Total number and value of the different varieties of furs taken by trappers during the year ending June 30, 1918:
Muskrats
802,048
$400,960.10
Skunk
50,304
131,938.20
Mink
22,859
86,469.30
Raccoon
4,651
14,305.60
Weasel
14,883
11,636.50
Fox
1,794
15,295.50
Fisher
559
2,963.40
Wolf
157
1,140.50
*Beaver
537
4,118.20
Bear
32
335.75
Wildcat
30
29.60
Lynx
19
289.00
Marten
48
100.10
Oppossum
25
28.00
Coyote
- 13
31.10
Mole
70
8.80
Badger
976
255.55
Total.
899,005
$669,905.20
* Special licenses issued for beaver in Price, Rusk, and Sawyer counties. 100 licenses issued. Largest number reported taken by one trapper, 33.
DAIRY AND FOOD DEPARTMENT
The years 1917-18 were an exceedingly active period in the his- tory of the Dairy and Food Department, due largely to the war time demands made upon it by manufacturers and consumers and by the food administration. Early in the war the Commissioner and his staff were deputized by the Food Administration to cooperate with that body in carrying out its program of food conservation, and to do inspectional work in connection with their regular duties as members of the depart- ment. Scores of samples of foods of all kinds, suspected of containing ground glass or poison, were received with requests for analysis, and the laboratory has been and is still flooded with such samples which are being taken care of as rapidly as possible.
In addition to the work performed in aid of the Food Administration, the cold storage act, the law licensing bottlers, and that licensing bakers and confectioners, placed under the jurisdiction of the depart- ment by the 1917 legislature, brought a tremendous increase in the work required of the inspectors, and also of the office staff in keeping records of all applications and reports. The results of the inspection work performed in the 2,590 cheese factories, 858 creameries, 197 bot- tling plants, 392 confectioneries, 769 bakeries and 46 cold storage ware- houses show, on the whole, most encouraging conditions; the coopera- tion has been splendid, and the results accomplished point with great significance to the importance of close supervision of all food manufac- tures. The welfare of the state depends upon the health of its people, and the work of the past two years in the places heretofore uninspected, where food was manufactured, emphasizes the importance of the de- partment and sustains its position as one of the most useful and bene- ficial to the people of the commonwealth.
Improvement in the egg situation was another very important phase of the work of the department during the last year. It is a modest
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