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annually for a number of years past your honorable body has pro- 

 vided for ten or more such expert butter and cheese makers and 

 this restrictive feature should for that reason be removed from 

 the statute, so that the number employed from time to time may 

 be, without question, such number as your honorable body shall 

 provide for. 



article 5 



That portion of article 5 of the Agricultural Law in relation to 

 the sale or exposure for sale of so-called veal calves should be 

 amended in one particular, in order to make definite and clear the 

 attitude of your honorable body relative to the shipment of calves 

 or carcasses of the same under four weeks of age. At the present 

 time the statute provides against the bringing into any city, town 

 or village in the state any calf or carcass of the same or any part 

 thereof for the purpose of selling, offering or exposing same for 

 sale for food unless in a good healthy condition and unless it was 

 at least four weeks of age, if killed, at the time of killing. 



In the enforcement of this statute as to what attitude the de- 

 partment should take in regard to calves that are being shipped 

 into any city, village or town in this state or to points without the 

 state, difficulty is met, as the statute is not entirely clear as to 

 the right of the Commissioner of Agriculture to seize such calves 

 so shipped without the state of New York. * It is entirely clear 

 that it is his right and duty to seize them if they are being shipped 

 to any city, town or village in this state to sell, offer or expose 

 for sale as food. With the condition that now prevails of shippers 

 being permitted to ship into other states but, not being allowed to 

 ship to cities, towns or villages in our own state, it is hard to 

 discriminate between legal and illegal shipments, particularly in 

 view of the many subterfuges that are being resorted to by per- 

 sons who desire the best possible market and yet do not care to 

 disclose their intentions. 



The statute also provides that no person shall slaughter or ex- 

 pose for sale any calf or carcass of the same or any part thereof, 

 except the hide, for food unless it was four weeks of age at the 

 time of killing. This particular feature of the statute is more 

 puzzling than the one above referred to, from the fact that if a 

 calf is killed within this state and it is under four weeks of age 



