No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 81 



REPORT OF ANALYSES. 



The regular publications of the "Monthly Bulletin" and other 

 printed matter already referred to, containing as they do, a com- 

 plete statement of analyses made by the chemists, it would be un- 

 necessary repetition to give such a statement in this report, and it 

 is therefore omitted. 



To reprint the thousands of chemists' reports, together with a 

 history of prosecutions ordered and their termination, lists of 

 articles of food found not adulterated, etc., would alone require 

 a volume as large as the annual report of the Department of Agri- 

 culture. The number and variety of samples analyzed during the 

 past nine months can best be comprehended by an examination of 

 the files of the "Monthly Bulletin." 



LIST OF LICENSES ISSUED. 



Owing to frequent requests, complete lists of the oleomargarine 

 and renovated butter license certificates issued appear regularly in 

 each number of the "Monthly Bulletin." This enables dairymen and 

 others interested to promptly discover and report violators of the 

 law. All licenses expire with the close of each year. The follow- 

 ing financial statement will prove of special interest in connection 

 with the sale of oleomargarine and renovated butter in Pennsyl- 

 vania: 



REPORT OF RECEIPTS OF THE DAIRY AND FOOD DIVISION FROM 



APRIL 1 TO DECEMBER 31, 1903. 



In compliance with your request I shall present as part of this 

 report, the appended financial statement relating to the amounts 

 received by this Division for oleomargarine and renovated butter 

 license certificates, and also the amounts received through prosecu 

 tions brought against the numerous offenders against the dairy and 

 food laws of Pennsylvania. The period covered by these figures 

 includes the brief official term, namely, from April 1 to December 

 81, 1903, inclusive. 



All of these license fees and the fines and costs collected were 

 promptly paid into the State Treasury, in conformity with the pro- 

 visions of the several acts of Assembly placed under my administra- 

 tion for enforcement. 



But for the fact that unavoidable delays in securing analytical 

 reports retard prosecutions, and because of the dilatory court pro- 

 ceedings in some sections of the Commonwealth, the aggregate re- 

 ceipts, although presenting a most favorable showing, would have 

 been considerably augmented. 



As the present Commissioner assumed charge of the office under 



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