Commissioner of Agriculture. 9 



(9) Providing for the suppression of infections and contagious 

 diseases among domestic animals. 



(10) Providing for the prevention of diseases among bees. 



(11) Providing for the prevention and suppression of con- 

 tagious and infectious diseases in fruit trees, plants, etc. 



(12) Providing against the manufacture and sale of Paris 

 green, except as provided in the statute. 



(13) Providing for the encouragement of the sugar-beet cul- 

 ture and the manufacture of beet sugar in the State. 



(14) Providing against the manufacture and sale of adul- 

 terated linseed or flaxseed oil. 



(15) Providing against the selling of " bob veal," i. e. meat 

 from calves that were diseased at the time of killing. 



(16) Providing for the distribution of moneys to the agricul- 

 tural societies of the State for the promotion of agriculture. 



(17) Relative to Farmers* Institutes. 



(18) Providing against selling adulterated or imitation maple 

 syrup or maple sugar. 



(19) To exercise such supervision as is provided relative to 

 the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station and the 

 Agricultural Experiment Station at Cornell University. 



(20) Relating to process butter and the use of preservalines 

 in dairy products. 



(21) Relating to the use of coloring matter in food products. 



(22) Relating to the use of the Babcock test. 



OLEOMARGARINE. 



The reports of the Assistant Commissioners in their respec- 

 tive divisions are that little or no oleomargarine has been sold 

 within the State during the year, the most of it having been sold 

 in the Second Division, which includes the city known as Greater 

 New York. 



The following cases, 159 in number, have been made during the 

 year for violation of the law. These cases were mostly for 

 clandestine sales, many of them being peddlers from the State 

 of New Jersey: 



