MISCELLANEOUS STATUTES.

Agricultural Law.

Examination of Food Products at State
Institutions.

§ 12. The commissioner of agriculture is hereby empowered and authorized to examine or cause to be examined food or food products produced or secured for use in the state institutions,— milk, monthly; other foods semi-annually and to make or cause to be made such other examinations as he may deem wise or as the facts seem to necessitate and warrant relative to such food products and relative to the agricultural methods at all farms connected with the state hospitals reporting to the state hospital commission, at all farms connected with state charitable institutions reporting to the fiscal supervisor of state charities, at all farms connected with state prisons reporting to the superintendent of prisons, and report the results of such examinations and make recommendations thereupon as follows: to the fiscal supervisor relative to farms connected with the state charitable institutions reporting to the fiscal supervisor, to the state hospital commission relative to farms reporting to that commission, and to the superintendent of state prisons relative to farms reporting to that official. For the purpose of assisting the commissioner of agriculture in the performance of duties authorized by this section, the fiscal supervisor and the superintendent of prisons and the state hospital commission shall secure and transmit to the commissioner of agriculture such available appropriate information and render such other assistance as the commissioner of agriculture may call for.

The commissioner of agriculture shall give such directions as in his judgment are deemed best to each superintendent, warden, or other person in charge of the several farms connected with the state institutions above mentioned as to proper care and development of farm lands and as to kind, production and disposition of crops, stock and produce and all other matters connected with the management of such farms; which directions when issued shall be

made effective by such superintendent, warden or other person in charge of such farms. No land shall hereafter be purchased by the state for farm purposes connected with any of the above institutions without the approval and appraisal of the commissioner of agriculture.

(Added by chapter 434 of the Laws of 1910, and amended by chapter 211 of the Laws of 1917.)

§ 12-a. Almshouse farms. The commissioner of agriculture is hereby empowered and authorized to make or cause to be made investigation and examination as to the farm lands at the almshouse farms of the various counties, the purposes to which they are best adapted and the crops which can most profitably be raised thereon, and to make report on the same to the boards of supervisors of the said counties; and to give lectures and demonstrations at least once each year at said almshouse upon the agricultural methods best adaptable to the various communities, sufficient notice of such lectures and demonstrations being given throughout all parts of the county. The commissioner of agriculture may assign members of the staff of the New York experiment station at Geneva, members of the faculties of the New York college of agriculture and of the various state schools of agriculture, subject to the approval of the directors thereof, to carry out the provisions of this section under his direction. (Added by chapter 460 of the Laws of 1913.)

§ 53. Butterine and similar products not to be purchased by certain institutions. No money appropriated by law for maintenance and support in whole or in

part of a state institution; nor money received by a

charitable, benevolent, penal or reformatory institution from the state, or from a county, city or town thereof, or appropriated by such county, city or town for the maintenance or support in whole or in part of such institution; nor money belonging to or used for the maintenance or support of such institution, shall be expended for the purchase of, or in payment for, butterine, oleomargarine, lard, cheese, or articles or products in imitation or semblance of natural butter or cheese produced from pure unadulterated milk or cream from the same, with articles or products have been rendered or manufactured in whole or in part

from animal fats, or animal or vegetable oils not produced from unadulterated milk or cream from the same.

§ 54. Purchase, sale and use of butterine and similar products, prohibited in certain institutions. No officer, manager, superintendent or agent of an institution mentioned in section fifty-three of this chapter, shall purchase for the use of such institution articles or products for the purchase of which the money appropriated by law, or by a county, city or town, is forbidden to be used by section fifty-three of this chapter, and no person shall sell to, or for the use of such institution, such articles or products. Nor shall such articles or products be used as articles of food or for cooking purposes in such institutions within this state.

Appropriations to certain hospitals and dispensaries in New York State

Appropriation bill. Chapter 791, Laws of 1913; provides for the care of state employees in hospitals.

Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital Society, Oneonta, chapter 594, Laws of 1909, authorizes the board of aldermen of the City of Oneonta to appropri ate certain moneys to the hospital.

Binghamton City Hospital, Binghamton. Chapter 135, Laws of 1904, creates a board of managers and provide for the control and management of a nonsectarian city hospital. Chapter 158, Laws of 1913, authorizes appropriation (section 74).

Brooks Memorial Hospital, Dunkirk. Chapter 140, Laws of 1899, section 9. Chapter 538, Laws of 1909, section 170.

City Hospital, Jamestown. City charter, chapter 359, Laws of 1909, secs. 65-65j.

City Hospital, Lockport. Chapter 568, Laws of 1901, as amended by chapter 199, Laws of 1908. Chapter 198, Laws of 1908, sec. 231, as amended by chapter 345 of the Laws of 1910. Chapter 308 of the Laws of 1910.

City of Kingston Hospital, Kingston. Chapter 91, Laws of 1900, subdivision 4 of section 77 of chapter 747, Laws of 1896, as amended by chapter 91 of the Laws of 1900.

Cortland Hospital Association, Cortland. Chapter 132, Laws of 1904.

The Elmira City Tuberculosis Sanatorium. Chapter 6 of the Laws of 1909. Chapter 102, Laws of 1916.

Fulton City Hospital. Chapter 358, Laws of 1908, secs. 187-189b. Chapter 249, Laws of 1909.

Helping Hand Hospital Association, Peekskill. Chapter 263, Laws of 1905, as amended by chapter 672 of the Laws of 1911 and Chapter 142 of the Lavs of 1912.