Commissioner of Agriculture. 



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This table shows an average loss of butter fat of 25 per cent, 

 and an addition of water of 20 per cent., or, reduced to measure, 

 33.54 quarts of pure milk and 6.46 quarts of water have been 

 mixed to produce the 40 quarts of milk sold. 



In the table below I will also give the analysis of the milk as 

 found at the herds of the seven cases not brought, which will 

 show that while under the old law, when no herd samples was 

 required to be taken, some unjust actions for adulteration may 

 have been brought, to-day such an injustice would be impossible: 



OLEOMARGARINE. 



The cities adjoining Greater New York and the towns lying 

 along the lower Hudson, where about two years ago wagon 



