Commissioner of Agriculture. 307 



PROSECUTIONS. 

 Milk. 



Instructions having been received from you about June 10, 

 1895, advising that, under the law passed by the last Legislature, 

 this Department had no authority to engage council for the prose- 

 cutions of violations against the Agricultural Law, and that coun- 

 sel was to be designated by the Attorney-General of this State, 

 and no counsel having been designated until recently, there have 

 been but two prosecutions during the year^ these two having been 

 brought before the new law went into effect. 



Counsel having been designated in some cases, actions have been 

 brought, and are now pending, the outcome of which will be 

 duly reported. 



In one of the prosecutions above mentioned, the defendant, 

 George Englert, admitted the selling of adulterated milk, and the 

 facts as presented by the Department; his counsel entered a plea 

 that Englert was innocent of wrong doing, having sold the product 

 as received by him; also, urging the youth of the defendant (he 

 being but 19 years old) and his previous good character in extenu- 

 ation, asking the mercy of the court in this case, being so far suc- 

 cessful that the court held the case open without fine. 



In the other case the defendanrt pleaded guilty and was fined 

 |25. 



CASE No. 322. 



The People v. George Englert. 



Police Court, Rochester, N. Y., Charles B. Ernst, Justice. 



Warrant issued December 14, 1894; adjourned to December fif- 

 teenth; again to December twentieth; again to December twenty- 

 seventh; defendant pleaded guilty; case held open. 



Counsel : John F. Kinney. 



Witnesses: Jos. M. Quigley, George Bernard, and chemist, 

 Samuel A. Lattimore. 



