Report of George J. Zillig. 



Hon. Frtcd. C. Schraub, Commissioner of Agriculture: 



I herewith submit my annual report, as assistant commissioner 

 for the district comprised of Erie, Niagara and Orleans counties, 

 for the year ending September 30, 1895. 



The general conditions under the law are about the same as 

 heretofore reported. The dairy laws are not so wilfully and flag- 

 rantly violated, as in former years, yet it continually needs the 

 vigilance of the Department, and the decisive and firm action of 

 the courts, to prevent any return, even in a limited measure, to 

 former conditions. With the great and growing cities of Buffalo 

 and Niagara Falls, and a number of large and progressive villages 

 in this district, the field is an important one, and the possibilities 

 of evasions of the laws are greater here than in smaller places and 

 in sparsely inhabited localities. The force of inspectors are con- 

 tinually on the alert, but I make no' pretense that all the ground 

 is covered, nor that all dairy articles used in the district are in- 

 spected, but I know that the work of the department is effective, 

 and a comparison with conditions in the past^ show surprising 

 results. 



IMITATION BUTTER. 



I have been unable to find but slight traces of spurious butter 

 being placed on the market or dispenised to consumers as the 

 genuine article. No licenses are granted in this district to manu- 

 facture imitation butter and any of that product that reaches 

 here comes from other States. As the people here have never 

 been educated to its use and, in fact, have an aversion to it, 

 little can be sold under its true name, and the vigilance of this 

 Department prevents, almost entirely, its imposition upon the 

 public as a genuine article of butter. 



