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at the time of killing but is to be shipped into another state to be 

 used as fertilizer, it is a fact peculiarly within the knowledge of 

 the shipper or buyer, and such killing or shipping may or may 

 not be a violation of the statute depending upon such knowledge. 

 If it is the desire of vour honorable bodv that the slaughtering of 

 these calves shall not be permitted within this state irrespective 

 of whether they are to be sold for such purposes in this state or 

 another, the statute should be made more definite in this particular. 



MEAT INSPECTION 



There is at the present time a demand for an inspection of the 

 meat that is sold within the state of New York for food purposes 

 beyond what it now receives. The meat that is sold, offered or 

 exposed for sale in the state of New York to-day which is from 

 animals killed outside the state is inspected by the national govern- 

 ment but meat from animals that are raised within the state and 

 killed within the state is not so inspected. The consequence is 

 that the public does not receive it with the same degree of con- 

 fidence and this very condition militates against the state pro- 

 ducers and may be a source of danger to the consuming public. 

 I call your attention to this subject at this time for the purpose of 

 suggesting to you that provision of some kind should be made for 

 an inspection, not only of the meat produced and sold within the 

 state, but the abattoirs and places of killing. I am of the opinion 

 that provision should be made for the examination of such meat 

 and such abattoirs, with the end in view of protecting the ultimate 

 consumer and of throwing such safeguards around it that the 

 production of meat in this state will be encouraged. 



MILK INSPECTION 



The Agricultural Law should be further amended by extending 

 or supplementing the powers already possessed by the Commis- 

 sioner of Agriculture, so that he may be able to examine all the 

 places where animals are kept for the production of milk for 

 market and exercise supervision or surveillance over such animals 

 so kept, to the end that the product from them when sent to market 

 shall be pure and wholesome, and that the health of the consuming 

 public shall not be endangered by disease germs or foreign matter 



