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FACTORIES. 



There are 61 cheese factories and 17 creameries in this divi- 

 sion, the surroundings of which, with one exception, were found 

 in good sanitary condition. The one exception was an Italian 

 cheese factory where conditions in vogue were not of the best, 

 and the proprietor was instructed to place his factory in a :lean 

 condition and protect the cheese made from exposure to insects, 

 as the law prohibited the exposure for sale or the offering for 

 sale of any unclean dairy product. All of the factories have 

 not been inspected this year, but it is the intention to have them 

 all thoroughly gone over at the beginning of the next season. 

 The few complaints that have been made were attended to imme- 

 diately after notification. 



OLEOMARGARINE AND RENOVATED BUTTER. 



But little oleomargarine or imitation butter has been 

 found in this division during the year past. Systematic 

 and thorough inspections have been made of all places 

 likely to have either on hand for sale or use, such as 

 -commission houses, hotels, railroad freigb* houses, express 

 depots and restaurants, but except in one instance we have 

 failed to find any. The one instance was the finding of three 

 boxes of oleomargarine in a railroad freight house, but it was 

 found later, after close watch, that the stuff had been sent here 

 through a mistake and it was returned from whence it came. 

 At the same time our agents discovered a number of tubs con- 

 taining oleomargarine being transferred from one railroad car to 

 another for shipment to a city in the interior part of the State 

 and in another division. The Assistant Commissioner of that 

 division was promptly notified, with the result that the party to 

 whom it was consigned was found with it and was obliged to 

 pay quite a penalty. It having come to my knowledge that lake 

 steamboats plying between Buffalo and other lake ports outside 



