The Bulletin. 



Volume 27. North Carolina State Board of Agriculture. Number 12. 



Entered at the Raleig'h Post-office as second-class mail matter. 



The Bulletin is published monthly by the State Board of Agriculture. 



RALEIGH, DECEMBER, 1906. 



REPORT ON FOOD PRODUCTS FOR 1906. 



BY 



B. W. KILGORE, State Chemist, 

 W. M. ALLEN, Chemist in Charge of Food Adulteration, 



AND 

 MISS H. M. CARD. 



The results of the examination of food products for the year 1006, 

 which is the Seventh Annual Report, the food law under which 

 the work has been done, and the rulings and food standards adopted 

 by the Board of Agriculture are presented on the following pages. 



AN ACT TO PREVENT THE SALE OF ADULTERATED AND 

 MISBRANDED FOOD. 



Chapter 80, Public Laws 1899. 

 Chapter 30G, Public Laws 1905. 



The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: 



Section L That for the purpose of protecting the people of the State from 

 imposition by the adulteration and misbranding of articles of food the Board 

 of Agriculture shall cause to be procured from time to time, and under rules and 

 regulations to be prescribed by them in accordance with section 9 of this act, 

 samples of food, beverages and condiments offered for sale in the State, and shall 

 cause the same to be analyzed or examined microscopically or otherwise by the 

 chemists or other experts of the Department of Agriculture. Tlie Board of Agri- 

 culture is hereby authorized to make such publications of the results of the exam- 

 inations, analyses and so forth as they may deem proper. 



Sec. 2. That no person, by himself or agent, shall knowingly manufacture, sell, 

 expose for sale, or have in his possession with intent to sell, "any article of food 

 which is adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of this act; and any 

 person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a 

 misdemeanor, and for such offense shall be fined not exceeding two hundred 

 dollars for the first offense and for each subsequent offense not "exceeding three 

 hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or both, in the discre- 

 tion of the court; and such fines, less legal costs and' charges, shall be paid into 



