Commissioner op Agriculture. Ill 



LINSEED OIL. 



During the year a canvass of the different stores in the State 

 where linseed oil was sold or exposed for sale has been made 

 with considerable care by a special agent of this Department 

 who was an expert relative to that commodity. Wherever the 

 adulterated goods, or goods whose sale or exposure for sale 

 would be in violation of the statute, were found, notice was 

 given to the parties that its sale was a violation. A second 

 visit was made to the place where these particular goods were 

 found during the first visit, and if they were found in the store 

 a second time samples were taken for analysis by the chemist. 



The following cases were made and referred to the Attorney- 

 General for violation of the provisions of the Agricultural Law, 

 as follows: 



April t, 1901. 



Case No. Case No. 



People v. Lang 27 People v. Mclntyre & Sons 10 



People v. Krueger & Co 30 People v. Kun 9 



People v. Sassman & Poholski 29 People v. Smith 7 



People v. Bluman 26 People v. Bayne & Carpenter 5 



People v. Kroenencke 16 People v. Holland 1 



People v. Kaplan 14 People v. Fonda 2, 31 



People v. Wolf 13 People v. Levine 24 



People v. Gordon 12 People v. Burt 21 



People v. Frank 11 -■• == 



MAPLE SUGAR AND MAPLE SYRUP. 



No cases have been made during the year for violation of the 

 provisions of this statute for the reason that if there is any 

 violation we are unable to detect it at the present time. We 

 have endeavored by detective work to ascertain whether the 

 statute is being violated in places where maple sugar and maple 

 syrup are being either renovated, made over or manufactured 

 from other substances. Our detective work has been up to the 

 present time unavailing, and chemical knowledge within our 

 reach is not sufficient to determine when maple sugar and maple 

 syrup have been adulterated by the addition of sugar or syrup 

 made from other commodities. Our chemists are doing what 

 they can, however, as time will permit, to develop some means 

 of determining such adulteration. T T ntil this is done we cannot 



