﻿Commissioner 
  of 
  Agkicultuke. 
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  keep 
  them 
  in 
  this 
  money 
  drawer, 
  saying 
  that 
  no 
  agent, 
  if 
  he 
  sus- 
  

   pected 
  the 
  presence 
  of 
  the 
  goods, 
  would 
  ever 
  think 
  of 
  looking 
  in 
  

   a 
  money 
  drawer, 
  or 
  if 
  he 
  did 
  think 
  of 
  that, 
  would 
  hardly 
  have 
  

   the 
  courage 
  to 
  do 
  so 
  ; 
  that 
  his 
  way 
  to 
  receive 
  the 
  agent 
  when 
  he 
  

   came 
  looking 
  for 
  the 
  goods 
  was 
  to 
  welcome 
  him 
  with 
  the 
  assur- 
  

   ance 
  that 
  he 
  was 
  glad 
  to 
  see 
  him 
  so 
  alert 
  in 
  the 
  discharge 
  of 
  his 
  

   duties 
  and 
  hopeful 
  that 
  he 
  would 
  succeed, 
  etc. 
  But 
  all 
  such 
  

   methods 
  as 
  these 
  are 
  of 
  no 
  avail. 
  The 
  oleomargarine 
  people 
  are 
  

   practically 
  out 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  ISTew 
  York, 
  and 
  must 
  remain 
  so 
  

   while 
  the 
  State 
  continues 
  to 
  equip 
  itself 
  as 
  it 
  has 
  in 
  the 
  past 
  for 
  

   this 
  work. 
  

  

  A 
  more 
  recent 
  method 
  of 
  putting 
  goods 
  on 
  sale 
  in 
  this 
  State 
  

   is 
  illustrated 
  by 
  a 
  case 
  which 
  has 
  recently 
  been 
  made 
  in 
  the 
  city 
  

   of 
  Buffalo 
  by 
  our 
  agents. 
  A 
  commission 
  merchant 
  in 
  that 
  city 
  

   was 
  receiving 
  what 
  he 
  called 
  renovated 
  butter 
  from 
  Englewood, 
  

   111. 
  It 
  came 
  into 
  the 
  State 
  branded, 
  as 
  the 
  State 
  law 
  requires 
  

   renovated 
  biTtter 
  to 
  be 
  branded 
  as 
  such. 
  He 
  was 
  branding 
  the 
  tubs 
  

   as 
  required 
  and 
  sending 
  them 
  out 
  to 
  his 
  customers 
  as 
  renovated 
  

   butter. 
  Our 
  agents 
  found 
  this, 
  upon 
  examination, 
  to 
  be 
  oleomar- 
  

   garine. 
  We 
  took 
  samples 
  from 
  tubs 
  in 
  stock 
  and 
  submitted 
  them 
  

   to 
  the 
  chemist. 
  At 
  this 
  writing 
  but 
  few 
  of 
  the 
  samples 
  

   have 
  been 
  analyzed, 
  but 
  they 
  proA^ed 
  to 
  be 
  oleomargarine. 
  

   We 
  are 
  now 
  doing 
  what 
  we 
  can 
  to 
  determine 
  who 
  is 
  the 
  

   proper 
  defendant 
  in 
  the 
  case. 
  We 
  have 
  detectives 
  who 
  

   are 
  at 
  work 
  on 
  the 
  case 
  to 
  determine 
  the 
  fact 
  as 
  to 
  who 
  may 
  have 
  

   been 
  the 
  party 
  selling 
  to 
  the 
  party 
  within 
  this 
  State, 
  and 
  the 
  

   party 
  from 
  whom 
  we 
  took 
  the 
  sample 
  is 
  apparently 
  aiding 
  us 
  to 
  

   the 
  best 
  of 
  his 
  ability 
  to 
  help 
  us 
  find 
  out. 
  At 
  this 
  writing 
  it 
  

   would 
  seem 
  that 
  he 
  is 
  sincere. 
  It 
  is 
  but 
  fair 
  to 
  state 
  here 
  that 
  

   the 
  goods 
  were 
  so 
  made 
  as 
  to 
  be 
  well 
  tended 
  to 
  deceive 
  the 
  best 
  

   judges, 
  and 
  we 
  could 
  hardly 
  have 
  been 
  able 
  to 
  detect 
  them 
  had 
  

   not 
  the 
  agent 
  been 
  an 
  expert 
  upon 
  that 
  commodity 
  in 
  every 
  sense 
  

   of 
  the 
  word. 
  The 
  prospects 
  in 
  this 
  case 
  are 
  such 
  as 
  to 
  impress 
  

   me 
  more 
  deeply 
  than 
  ever 
  with 
  the 
  force 
  of 
  the 
  idea 
  that 
  the 
  

  

  