302 BOARD OF AGRICULTUEE. [Pul^. Doc. 



This very comprehensive law includes educational and 

 police duties, and can be enforced in such a broad manner 

 as to enhance the interests of consumers and producers of 

 dairy products, of dwellers in both city and country. It 

 has been the aim of the bureau to make its work of service 

 to the whole community. 



The executive department of the bureau remains the same 

 as at the time of its report a year ago. Wm. R. Sessions, 

 secretary of the Board of Agriculture, is by statute the 

 responsible executive officer ; but most of the actual ex- 

 ecutive work foils upon his assistant, — appointed b}' the 

 governor, — Geo. M. Whitaker. In addition to these ex- 

 ecutive duties, Mr. Whitaker has also been placed by the 

 bureau in immediate charge of the educational department 

 of the work. J. W. Stockwell continues an agent of the 

 bureau for securing evidence of the violation of the laws in 

 relation to the sale of oleomargarine. 



The Police Department. 



The statute gives the bureau authority to enforce all the 

 laws relating to all dairy products, but in the brief time 

 the law has been in operation, and with the means at our 

 disposal, there has been opportunity to take up only the 

 oleomaro-arine laws. These laws are in brief as follows : — 



1. Requirements for branding boxes and tubs and for marking 

 wrapping paper, with a penalty for false marking or branding. 



2. A prohibition of the use of the word " dairy " or " creamery " 

 on any tub or package. 



3. A requirement for licensing a dealer and a conveyer. 



4. A penalty for selling oleomargarine as butter. 



5. Requirements for signs on stores and wagons. 



6. A prohibition of the sale at hotels and restaurants without 

 giving notice. 



7. A prohibition of the sale of any imitation of yellow butter. 



Laws regulating the sale of oleomargarine were first 

 passed in this State in 1881, and, as experience showed the 

 need of more and more restrictive measures, additional 

 legislation was enacted in 1884, 1885, 1886 and 1891. The 

 absolute prohibition of the sale of any imitation of yellow 



