No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 73 



"The gradual increase in population, combined with a rapid development ut 

 the transportation facilities, have not been without a beneficial effect upon 

 the vast dairying interests of Pennsylvania. These facts make it possible for 

 the dairy representatives and farmers, generally, not only to sell their products 

 to an increased constituency, but at materially higher prices. The latest 

 figures obtainable report that the value of dairy products in Pennsylvania are 

 exceeded by but one State in the Union, aggregating $35,860,110 per annum, 

 and that, according to the last census, there were 32,600 farms in Pennsylvania 

 which derived their principal income from the dairy. In 1900 the State had 

 943,773 dairy cows and these produced 487,033,818 gallons of milk in one year. 

 The total number of farms in the State, as reported by the last census, is 

 224,248, and the number reporting dairy products was 200,036, with a total valua- 

 tion of $35,860,686. The butter made on 159,837 of these farms aggregated 

 74,221,085 pounds, of which amount 51,309,833 pounds were sold by the pro- 

 ducers." 



These figures at once reveal the somewhat startling evolution that 

 has been effected from a simple and crude beginning, to the high 

 standard of dairying that prevails to-day throughout this State. 

 I am especially anxious to foster this industry and to protect con- 

 sumers against the sale of illegal dairy products. If renovated 

 butter be sold without a license, or if oleomargarine be sold without 

 a license or illegally colored, or if a dairyman sell preserved, watered 

 or otherwise adulterated milk, the offender in each case when de- 

 tected, will be held to a strict accountability. 



The oleomargarine and renovated butter acts legalized the sale 

 of these commodities, but the Legislature has placed certain condi- 

 tions in the statutes that must be fully observed by both manufac- 

 turers and dealers, as wx41 as the proprietors of hotels and boarding 

 houses, and w'herever oleomargarine and renovated butter may be 

 sold or used outside of the private family. 



I vvould respectfully solicit the cordial co-operation of the agricul- 

 tural class, including granges and all kindred organizations, as well 

 as that of the press and citizens generally, in my efforts to abolish 

 all illegal traffic in substitutes for pure butter and other dairy 

 products. 



OLEOMARGARINE IN CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS. 



During the brief term of official life, covered by this report, it was 

 discovered that oleomargarine was being used to a considerable ex- 

 tent in certain charitable and penal institutions which received 

 State aid, and were therefore prohibited by the legislative enact- 

 ment, from using the same under any conditions. Prosecutions 

 were instituted against certain officials in different counties for vio- 

 lations of the law prohibiting the use of imitation or adulterated 

 dairy products in charitable or penal institutions, and in all such 

 prosecutions the cases were sustained bv the courts, and the defend- 

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