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The popular estimate of the daily average receipts of crude 

 iriilk at the city of New York from all sources, being 25,000 forty- 

 quart cans, would equal 365,000,000 quarts annually. The crude 

 milk actually shipped from this division, independent of esti- 

 mated equivalents from condensed milk, cream or other product, 

 would approximate close to one-third of the entire receipts of 

 the city of New York from the five shipping States. The 

 natural tendency in this district is a gradual decrease in the 

 number of butter and cheese factories with increased patronage 

 of milk stations by reason of the excellent railroad facilities 

 here provided for shipping milk to the New York market. 



By request much attention and investigation has been given 

 to the condition of milk as delivered to factories and shipping 

 stations, which has resulted in marked improvement and a bet- 

 ter quality of butter and cheese made therefrom. 



There has been but little disease among cattle of this division, 

 and the transfer of the control of bovine tuberculosis to the 

 State Agricultural Department has given occasion for general 

 expression of satisfaction among dairymen. 



The work of the agents of this division has been well and 

 thoroughly done, and there have been but few court trials of 

 the cases made for violations of the Agricultural Law, the de- 

 fendant preferring to settle with the State's attorney rather 

 than defend the action because of the completeness of the case 

 against him. I have given much time and personal attention 

 to the investigation of the evidence and technicalities involved 

 in each case. 



VINEGAR. 



There is lately a disposition among wholsalers and retailers 

 to observe caution in buying their stocks of vinegar, and requests 

 from them have been frequent asking that their supply be in- 

 spected before they offer it for sale that they may be assured 

 that it conforms to the requirements of the law. For this dis- 

 trust we believe that good reason exists, as there seems to be 

 a, disposition on the part of certain unscrupulous vinegar manu- 

 facturers to take chances in the hope that the chemist may fail 



