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to detect certain adulterations. We have done much detective 

 work along this line. 



If vinegar manufacturers could be legally prohibited from 

 manufacturing or storing white wine or other acid vinegars on 

 the same premises with cider vinegar, it would materially stop 

 cider vinegar adulteration, a bill for such a law having been 

 introduced at the last session of the Legislature but unfortu- 

 nately failed of passage. 



The present policy of the Attorney-General's office in desig- 

 nating one attorney for the prosecution of all vinegar cases in 

 contrast with distributing these cases among attorneys all over 

 the State we are induced to believe must be conducive to 

 good results, as it insures uniform procedure and the attorney 

 must more keenly feel the responsibility that rests upon him 

 to bring the prosecutions to a successful conclusion to the end 

 that such adulterations be effectually stopped. 



VEAL. 



Veals shipped from this division have been thoroughly 

 inspected and many seizures made, the effect of which has been 

 very wholesome, resulting in a gratifying decrease in the 

 number of violations. Much of the good results already accom- 

 plished would have been permanent in their effect but for the 

 accidental repeal of the bob-veal law. 



The provisions of this law had the moral support of the pub- 

 lic because of the protection afforded to the consumer against 

 the illegitimate traffic in this unwholesome food, as also the 

 protection to the interests of the farmer against competition 

 from this source with the legitimate products of his farm. 

 Veals two or three days old and even less were bought very 

 cheaply and shipped to the cities and sold as food where the 

 supply from this source was brought into direct competition 

 with matured veal, seriously injuring the market and prices of 

 the same to the detriment of the farmers as a class and to the 

 profit of a few unscrupulous dealers. Such traffic cannot in 



any sense be likened unto any farm industry, as except where 



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