18 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Off. Doc. 



DAIRY AND FOOD BUREAU 



The operations of the Dairy and Food Bureau during the year 

 were carried forward with persistence and activity. Every branch 

 of the work received the attention that its importance required and 

 to those who are interested, as all should be, in the enforcement of 

 the Pure Food Laws of the State, the detailed report of the Commis- 

 sioner found in another part of this volume will prove interesting 

 reading. To be in a position to discover violations of the law and 

 prompt in bringing the offenders to justice have been the constant 

 aims of this Bureau, and the work done as outlined in the report 

 referred to will meet the approval of all who deprecate the doping of 

 foods or the sale of food commodities that will not stand the requisite 

 tests for purity. 



It is needless that I should say anything more in relation to the 

 respective Bureaus or Divisions of the Department than to merely 

 call attention to the reports of the officers- and agents in charge of 

 the same, all of which appear in this general Report in their regu- 

 lar order. 



PITTSBURG LAND SHOW 



The extensive advertising given during the month of August to 

 the Land Show to be held at Pittsburg, October 27 to 29, attracted 

 my attention, and while the Department was not in possession of 

 the necessary appropriation or other adequate means for making 

 such an exhibit of our agricultural products as would do justice to 

 the State, I felt that Pennsylvania could not afford to have this 

 great exhibit of the products of tho land 'of other states made within 

 her borders, without taking part in it and making such an exhibit 

 as would show to home seekers that they need not go outside of our 

 State to find lands, purchasable at reasonable prices, upon which by 

 the employment of up-to-date methods, as good results may be se- 

 cured as are attainable in any other section of the country. 



Accordingly, on the 7th of September, a circular was sent to mem- 

 bers of the State Board of Agriculture, County Managers of Far- 

 mers' Institutes, Granges, Agricultural Clubs and individual far- 

 mers, asking for their assistance in getting together such an exhibit. 

 The farmers of the State seemed to take delight in the opportunity 

 afforded them to show their loyalty to their calling, as well as to 

 their State and the Department, and the exhibit both in extent and 

 quality was far beyond anything I had dared to expect or hope for. 

 It was a source of great gratification to the many thousands of citi- 

 zens of our own State that attended the show and a very great sur- 

 prise to the people present from other states, who were accustomed 

 to regard Pennsylvania as a mining and manufacturing state and 

 were entirely unprepared for the demonstration they witnessed of 

 her greatness as an agricultural state. 



STATE COLLEGE 



Closely affiliated with the Department of Agriculture, is the work 

 of the School of Agriculture and Experiment Station of the Pennsyl- 

 vania State College, and I feel that this report would be incomplete 



