84 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



1902. 



Pure food flues, 



Oleomargarine licenses, 



Millv fines, 



Oleomargarine fines, 1899, 



Oleomargarine fines, 1901, 



Renovated butter fines, 1899, 



Renovated butter fines, 1901 , 



Renovated butter licenses, 



Cheese fines, 



Vinegar fines, 



Lard fines. 



^j 



Total, 



AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS. 



Realizing the magnitude of the dairy industry and the importance 

 of its development, I have endeavored to interest and secure the 

 more active co-operation of all agricultural organizations in the 

 enforcement of the law. The help received through the State, 

 Pomona and Subordinate Granges, Farmers' Alliances and kindred 

 agricultural organizations was of especial value, and merits this 

 grateful acknowledgment. The Pure Butter Protective Association, 

 through its officers, namely, Thomas W. Sharpless, i)resident; Isaac 

 W. Davis, secretary, and W. F. Drennau, chairman of the executive 

 committee, also assisted very materially in the effort to place Penn- 

 sylvania in the first rank as a dairy state. By the earnest and intel- 

 ligent co-operation of the above named organizations, at least sev- 

 eral thousand dollars were collected and paid into the State Treas- 

 ury on account of fines imposed and license certificates issued as 

 the result of information received of violations of the oleomargarine 

 and renovated butter laws. 



GROCERS UNITED IN THE WORK. 



The Retails Grocers' Association, of Philadelphia, through its 

 energetic secretary, William H. Smedley, has also demonstrated 

 its sympathy with and support of rational pure food legislation. 

 Representatives of similar associations throughout Pennsylvania 

 have given their hearty support, although no other class of business 

 men in the Commonwealth have greater issues at stake. While 

 separate and independent views might have prevailed at the be- 

 ginning relative to the utility and propriety of certain legislation, 

 the opportunities to realize the beneficent effects of such laws, 



