Q Ken·tne/ty Agricultural Experiment Station xi  
gi " ·_ _ Food Division.-Important in pure food work during the past *
u_ year- has been thehpassage of theiNational Pure Food Law and A
)I_ -_ the Meat Inspection Law. A system of eo-operation between ,
m r the Federaland State Departments is being arranged, both for .
L _ . I the purpose of strengthening each other’s work and for the
i' purpose of bringing about uniformity. Since the last report, · ·
d   669 food samples have been taken from the markets and _
ls V analyzed. Of this number,120 were found adulterated. Two I _
6 ` hundred and fifty-two violations have been reported to the
4 State’s attorneys, including 19 0 eases of negligent contamination ‘
g ‘ and filth in places wherefood was being produced or sold. The —
· analyses have covered aiiwide range of products. Out of the -
6 A prosecutions resulting from the report of adulterated and mis- ·
E   branded food, several especially important verdicts have resulted. i
F .. One, a fine of sixty dollars and costs at Paintsville, Kentucky,
Yi A- for selling adulterated vinegar; one at XVill.iamstown, Kentucky, `
é _ of sixty dollars, for selling adulterated canned corn; one at
Henderson, Kentucky, of twenty-five dollars, for selling New
{ p Q Orleans molasses adulterated with glucose and not so labeled;
p and one of ninety dollars at Hodgenville, Kentucky, for selling
’ a mixture made artificially from colors and flavoring ethers, as
i "Oherry Juice."‘
` In Louisville, 130 verdicts were obtained against dairymen,
A either for having filthy places, feeding swill or having con-
taminated milk. Each was fined $100.00 and fifty days in jail,  
the order of the committal being suspended if by April first the
conditions were removed. In each and every case this has been i
done. In addition to this, fifty fines for selling watered milk
. were secured in Louisville, and sixtyiiines for keeping milk in
unclean refrigerators and milk depots.
Agrfciztturat DfUfSfO7'l.·—DllTi11g the year experiments in the
breeding of tobacco and corn have been continued. Variety tests
' of wheat have also been continued, and also experiments in the
dairy line. L
The work of tobacco breeding has been conducted by the Q
. United States Department of Agriculture in eo—opcration with ·
this Station. Mr. YV. H. Scherifius, our Agriculturist, was ap- i
pointed Tobacco Expert by the United States Department of ~
Agriculture, and during last summer, tobacco fields were visited
A in both the Burley and Dark Tobacco Districts. Seed plants
were selected, representing the best types of each variety found.