310 Third Annual Report of the 



MILK. 



Impure milk is not easily driven from the market, but adulter- 

 ations are not so prevalent as last year. Milk often is not up to 

 the standard, but not always from the act of the producer or 

 seller. The law, however, does not recognize any exceptions as to 

 cause, nor relieve an accused because of innocence or ignorance. 

 Changed conditions may depreciate the quality of milk which, 

 from the same source, may have been of the best quality for years, 

 and thus it is necessary that no exceptions should be made in 

 sampling milk placed on the market. We, therefore, take a large 

 number of samples, and but few of them, after all have been put 

 to our test, are sent to the chemist and found to be such as warrant 

 the lodgment of complaint. 



The average of convictions this year is about the same as last 

 year. 



PROSECUTIONS. 



Milk. 



We herewith report the names of persons arraigned for viola- 

 tions of the law in selling impure milk, and the disposition of their 

 cases. You will notice that the last of the cases tried was on 

 May 16, 1895. The changed law regarding prosecutions, which 

 requires the Attorney General of the State to designate the trial 

 attorney, compelled us to withhold a number of cases from the 

 court until such attorney was appointed. We have at the end of 

 the fiscal year, twelve cases which we are ready to prosecute when 

 the attorney is designated, and I shall be pleased to assist him in 

 making his prosecutions successful. 



The People v. John Lock. 



November 27, 1894. — Defendant convicted and fined twenty- 

 five dollars, which was paid. 



