2. Handling

3. Feeding 4. Pasturing 5. Engineering 1. Structures 2. Equipment 3. Machinery

6. Market Milk and Cream

1. Plant sanitation

2. Plant management

3. Product quality and character

7. Dairy Production

8. Dairy Products Manufacturing

9. Dairy Products Utilization

10. Miscellaneous

2. Dissemination

I. Publications

2. Exhibits

3. Demonstrations

4. Miscellaneous Publicity

I. Radio

2. Motion pictures

3. Regulation

1. Renovated Butter Inspection 2. Navy Butter Supervision

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APPENDIX 3

PUBLICATIONS

The Bureau of Dairy Industry issues from time to time, in certain of the standard publications of the Department of Agriculture, articles prepared by members of its staff upon various phases of the investigational work in which it is principally engaged. It is by means of these published articles that it performs an important part of the minor function-dissemination-enjoined upon it by the statute creating it.

Articles of the type referred to appear as: Yearbook articles; articles in the Journal of Agricultural Research; Farmers' Bulletins; Technical Bulletins; Circulars; Leaflets; and Miscellaneous Publications. The scope and purpose of an article determine the particular form in which it is issued.

Yearbook articles are designed to be of especial interest to farmers. In addition to being issued as a part of the Yearbooks they are issued in pamphlet form as

separates."1

Articles in the Journal of Agricultural Research are written in a somewhat highly technical style and are intended primarily for agricultural scientists and advanced students. Like the Yearbook articles they are also issued as separates.*

Farmers' Bulletins are written in popular style, cover a wide range of subject matter, and are designed to be of general interest." Technical Bulletins contain the results of scientific and research work and are intended for distribution chiefly to scientists and subject matter specialists.*

1 See Separate from Yearbook, 1926, No. 939, “Dairy By-Products and Methods of Utilizing Them."

2 See "A Laboratory Study to Determine the Best Time to Ensile Corn, Sunflowers, and Sudan Grass." Reprinted from Journal of Agricultural Research, Vol. XXXII, No. 4. February 15, 1926.

3 'See Farmers' Bulletin No. 1443, "Dairy Cattle Breeds."

'See Technical Bulletin No. 17, "Work of the United States Dry Land Field Station, Ardmore, South Dakota, 1912-1925." Pages 40 to 67 of this bulletin deal with the dairy work at the Station. The rest of the bulletin is devoted to Plant Industry and Animal Industry work.

Circulars carry the less technical and more informal material of the same general nature as that in the Technical Bulletin series." Leaflets are abbreviated Farmers' Bulletins, confined to specific practical directions, recommendations, remedies, and methods.

Miscellaneous Publications are sundry publications which do not fall within any of the other series of the department. They were formerly known as "miscellaneous circulars."'

In addition to the foregoing the Bureau annually publishes a report by the Chief covering the work done during the preceding fiscal year. Dated in August, these annual reports are usually released for general distribution in December.

Service and Regulatory Announcements, containing notices of judgments, decisions, and other information necessary in the enforcement of regulatory acts, are issued from time to time by bureaus of the Department of Agriculture charged with such enforcement. Only one such announcement has been issued by the Bureau of Dairy Industry, which, as has been explained heretofore, is not a regulatory bureau in the strict sense of the word, but has inherited a couple of semi-regulatory functions from its former status as a part of the Bureau of Animal Industry.

As has been detailed elsewhere, the old Dairy Division of the Bureau of Animal Industry, out of which the present Bureau of Dairy Industry was created subsequent to the passage of the organic act of 1924, began to inspect renovated butter factories in 1902 in conformity with the provisions of an act passed on May 9 of that year, making the Secretary of Agriculture responsible for certain phases of the regulation of the manufacture of such butter. This responsibility was delegated to the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, who was then in control of the governmental unit logically fitted to administer matters relating to dairy products-the Dairy Division. That Division continued to perform this work year after year, and in June, 1923, "Regulations governing the manufacture, inspection, and marking of process or renovated butter, issued by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and approved jointly by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Agriculture," was published. The regulations provided that Sections 123 to 126

* See Circular No. 3, "Proved Dairy Sires."

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See Leaflet No. 16, “Purebred Dairy Sires.”"

'See Miscellaneous Circular No. 26, "The Cow Tester's Handbook."

thereof were under the administrative jurisdiction of the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry. When, in the following year, the Dairy Division became the Bureau of Dairying and thus passed from under the control of the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, these regulations became obsolete, and it became necessary to re-issue them in a form that would show that the Chief of the new Bureau of Dairying was responsible for their administration under the Secretary of Agriculture. Accordingly they were so reissued in April, 1925, as Service and Regulatory Announcements, No. 1, of the Bureau of Dairying.

The Bureau also publishes in mimeographed form three monthly letters known as the Milk Plant Letter, the Milk Inspection Letter, and the Dairy Herd Improvement Association Letter. These letters are sent out to mailing lists of milk plant owners, city milk inspectors, and herd improvement association members throughout the country. They aim to supply an up-to-date digest of the latest developments in the three fields indicated.

Radio material covering dairying subjects is prepared by the Bureau for the Radio Service of the departmental Office of Information in two ways. Formal radio talks are distributed to the broadcasting stations by the Radio Service in finished form as received from the Bureau. In "Farm Flashes," which are terse epitomes of agricultural information put on the air at stated periods in question-and-answer form, the bare facts and figures relating to dairy flashes are given by the Bureau to the Radio Service, which then works them up into final broadcasting form.

The Office of Motion Pictures of the Department prepares films on all phases of agricultural work for exhibition in farming communities. As related heretofore, the Bureau lends a hand in the preparation of films dealing with the dairy industry in a variety of ways-principally in the writing of scenarios and the preparing of locations for their filming."

Much matter pertaining to the work of the Bureau is also published in the Official Record and via the Clip Sheet. The Official Record is a weekly paper published by the Department of Agriculture containing official orders and miscellaneous information

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" The most recent dairying film is entitled "Blood Will Tell." It illustrates the advantages of the use of proved sires.

concerning the activities of the Department and its several bureaus and other subordinate units.

The Clip Sheet is a collection of brief stories of general interest about the work of the Department of Agriculture, and the application of new ideas and discoveries in the field of agriculture, that is issued by the Department at regular intervals to the press at large and to interested publications and writers.

Papers and articles dealing with the work of the Bureau appearing in journals having no official connection with the Bureau, the Department, or the national government, cannot, of course, be classed as Bureau publications. The scientific and technical work of the Bureau receives so much publicity, however, by virtue of articles contributed by its technical staff to such publications as the Journal of Dairy Science," the "Journal of Chemical Engineering," and the "Journal of Bacteriology" that mention of the fact is deemed appropriate.