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§ 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 such institutions, and report the results of such examinations and make recommendations thereupon to the fiscal supervisor or to the superintendent of prisons or to the commission in lunacy for their respective departments or offices. 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 commission in lunacy 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. (Added by chapter 434 of the Laws of 1910.)

§ 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 VOL. 3-9

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.)

Anti-Butterine Law.

AN ACT to prevent the use of butterine, oleomargarine or adulterated or imitation dairy products in certain institutions within this state.

Chapter 364, Laws of 1893.

§ 1. Expenditures for products, etc., forbidden. 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, which 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.

§ 2. Purchase, sale and use of products, etc., prohibited. No officer, manager, superintendent or agent of an institution mentioned in the first section of this act, 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 this act, 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.