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found that adulteration was rather the rule than the exception, 

 although not in aH cases was it carried so far as to bring the 

 milk below the standard. Identically the same condition existed 

 at the Union Hill cheese factory located in Monroe county, where 

 the quality of milk furnished by the patrons was so poor as to 

 compel the management to shut down the factory at least one 

 month sooner than ordinarily. 



Prosecutions have been started in the above cases of adultera- 

 tion, and they will no doubt be carried to a successful issue. 



No samples of cheese were taken for analysis during the past 



year. 



MILK. 



To some dealers the temptation to adulterate milk seems to 

 be irrepressible, and great deception is practiced to cover up 

 their guilt and to prevent detection if possible, but our experts 

 have become so skillful in their knowledge of the means of detect- 

 ing such adulteration that it is almost impossible for violaitors of 

 the law to escape detection. 



Those who deliberately violate the law are not the only 

 ones who need attention. Peddlers who buy their milk in the 

 rural districts and distribute it just as they receive it can not 

 be allowed to escape responsibility if the product sold should be 

 below the required standard; and we have impressed upon such 

 peddlers the great necessity of having their milk tested by the 

 legal experts for their own protection, and we are now often 

 called upon to test milk for such parties. 



We make our inspections of milk sold from peddlers^ wagons in 

 the early moning, as a rule, at a time when we are able to meet 

 them on the outskirts of the city, and before they have commenced 

 to distribute the milk to their patrons, thus endeavoring to insure 

 the delivery of a pure and unadulterated article to the consumers. 

 Inspections of milk received at the several railroad stations in 

 the city of Rochester are frequently made both morning and 

 evening. 



Sixty-four samples of fluid milk were taken for analysis, of 

 which 37 were above and 27 below standard. 

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