I. B. LeFurge-Condition of cows, fairly good and fairly clean; feed, hay, cornstalks, ground corn and oats; stables, fairly neat and clean, some cobwebs on ceilings; yard, clean and dry; drainage, good; ventilation, good; water, well; milk room, neat and clean; uses an aerator.

Scotney Bros.-Condition of cows, good and clean; feed, clover hay, ensilage, shredded fodder, ground corn and oats; stables, neat and clean, and partly whitewashed; yard, dry and fairly clean; drainage, good; ventilation, good; water, well; milk room, neat and clean; uses an aerator.

George Wilber-Condition of cows, fairly good but dirty; feed, cornstalks, hay, sugar beets, ground corn and oats; stables in poor condition and just fairly clean; yard, fairly clean and dry; ventilation, good; water, well.

Mrs. J. S. Harrison-Condition of cows, fair but dirty; feed, cornstalks, hay, ground corn and oats; stables, fairly neat and clean; yard, clean and dry; drainage, fair; ventilation, fair; water, well; milk room, clean and neat; uses an aerator.

F. R. Emerick-Condition of cows, fine and very clean; feed, ensilage, hay, cornstalks, gluten feed and bran; stables, clean and neat; yard, fairly clean and dry; drainage, good; ventilation, good; water, well; milk room, neat and clean; uses an aerator.

E. L. Brown-Condition of cows, good and clean; feed, cornmeal, ground oats, bran, cut stalks and hay; stables, neat and clean, nicely whitewashed; yard, clean and dry; drainage, good; ventilation, good; water, well; milk room, neat and clean.

ANALYSES.

REPORT OF THE STATE ANALYST.

HON. ELLIOT O. GROSVENOR, State Dairy and Food Commissioner:

Sir—I herewith respectfully submit the following report of work done at the Department Laboratory during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1900, on the samples of dairy and food products collected by the Inspectors of this Department and forwarded for analysis.

The summary includes all articles examined, but only those found adulterated are published in detail.

Lansing, Mich., June 30, 1900.

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Very respectfully,

R. E. DOOLITTLE,

State Analyst.

EXPLANATORY.

It should not be inferred from an examination of the figures in the following table that they represent the actual condition of the food supply of Michigan as regards adulteration. The experience of the Department's inspectors enables them to readily determine as to the purity of many of the food products inspected, and samples are se lected after an examination by them because they are supposed to be adulterated.

Only samples of this kind, or in which some new form of adulteration is liable to appear, are sent to the Department Laboratory for analysis. If a sample should be taken from every article inspected, the summary would be vastly different.