1886 



Agricultural Law 



[Art. 2. 



violation of any one of such provisions has heen committed for 



which a penalty or forfeiture is imposed. 



Pcoplp V. Brifrgs & McQuade, 114 X. Y. 5G; People v. Liberman Dairy Co., 

 59 Misc. Rep. 22; People v. Munn, 131 App. Div. 341. 



Examina- 

 tion of 

 food for 

 state in- 

 stitutions. 



Report of 

 examina- 

 tion. 



§ 12. The commissioner of agriculture is hereby empowered 

 and authorized to examine or cause to be examined food or food 

 products produced or secured for use in the state institutions — 

 milk monthly ; other foods semi-annually — and to make or cause 

 to be made such other examinations as he may deem wise or as 

 the facts seem to necessitate and warrant relative to such food 

 products and relative to the agricultural methods at such institu- 

 tions, and report the results of such examinations and make 

 recommendations thereupon to the fiscal supervisor or to the 

 superintendent of prisons or to the commission in lunacy for 

 their respective departments or offices. For the purpose of 

 Assistance assistiug the commissioner of agriculture in the performance of 

 duties authorized by this section, the fiscal supervisor and the 

 superintendent of prisons and the state commission in lunacy 

 shall secure and transmit to the commissioner of agriculture such 

 available appropriate information and render such other assist- 

 ance as the commissioner of agriculture may call for. {As added 

 hy chapter 434 of the Laws of 1910.) 



to commis- 

 sioner 



Iiivostisa- 

 tion of 

 farm 

 lands. 



Instruc- 

 tors and 

 Jectures. 



§ 12-a. Almshouse farms. The commissioner of agriculture is 

 hereb}^ empowered and authorized to make or cause to be made 

 investigation and examination as to the farm lands at the alms- 

 house farms of the various counties, the purposes to which they 

 are best adapted and the crops which can most profitably be 

 raised thereon, and to make report on the same to the boards of 

 supervisors of the said counties; and to give lectures and demon- 

 strations at least once each year at said almshouse upon the agri- 

 cultural methods best adaptable to the various communities, suffi- 

 cient notice of such lectures and demonstrations being given 

 throughout all parts of the county. The commissioner of agri- 

 culture may assign members of the stati: of the New York ex- 

 periment station at Geneva, members of the faculties of the New 

 York college of agriculture and of the various state schools of 



