In addition to these exhibitions Mr. John B. Newman, Assistant Commissioner; Dr. T. J. Bryan, State Analyst, and myself have, at various times, delivered addresses before these State organizations illustrating the work done by the State Food Department as well as explaining the food law, its uses and abuses.

The department has mailed out the annual report to the judges of our Supreme Court, our circuit judges, county judges, states' attorneys, members of the General Assembly, the large manufacturers and packers, the large retail grocers, the creameries, milk condensaries, bottling plants, the public libraries, and food officials that might be interested in the same.

I desire to call especial attention to the work of the State Laboratory under the direction of Dr. T. J. Bryan, as he has given a very full and complete report of the work of the laboratory in this report, showing the many new sophistications of the different foods on the markets of the State. It is wonderful how ingenious some of our manufacturers and packers are, and the report of Dr. Bryan gives a very full and complete report of same as well as the official samples analyzed, and the tables of analysis, and will justify any one who may be interested in food control work and the discoveries of the laboratory to make a study of

same.

I also desire to call due attention to the report of Mr. John B. Newman, Assistant State Food Commissioner, embodied in this report. Mr. Newman has given a very full and complete report of all hearings before the department, and especially as to the condition of the dairy products of the State and has included in his report a list of creameries and cheese factories, milk condensary plants and milk bottling plants. Mr. Newman has been for over three years working on these tables and has obtained substantially a complete list of these plants. While the work has been great, the dairy industries of our State are of such importance-Illinois being the first dairy State in the Union—that it fully justifies the effort involved in compiling same.

The report of Dr. Bryan further shows the results of the laboratory in regard to the analysis of stock foods under the State Stock Food Law regulating the manufacture, sale and analysis of concentrated commercial feed stuffs for feeding live stock and domestic animals, and I desire to call attention to his report of same as well as the tables of analysis and tables showing the average, partial composition of feeding stuffs, as well as a general outline of the work performed by the laboratory in regard to these stock foods.

I desire to call the attention of the report of Mr. Charles F. McKinley, attorney for the State Food Department, as Mr. McKinley has had charge of the prosecutions of those cases that are submitted to the state's attorneys of the different counties of the State and his report will show the many difficulties encountered by the department in these prosecutions and the subterfuges adopted by many of those charged with violation of the laws in framing up a defense to the charges. A reading of his report will be very interesting to any one who may be interested in the prosecution of our food laws.

Attention is also called to the reports of the inspectors as in these reports are given a history of the inspections made as well as the sanitary conditions of many of the places where foods are manufactured, packed or sold, and especially in the improvements of the slaughter houses and meat markets and other places where foods are manufactured and sold in the State and it will be seen by the reports of the inspectors that there has been a great change for the better in the sanitary conditions, not only of the foods, but of the places where foods are manufactured, packed or sold.

I desire also to call attention to the report of suits brought and still pending during the past year by the department. The reports show that the manufacturers, packers and dealers in foods when notified, as provided in section 40 of the food laws, have responded to the notice and where it has been shown that they were guilty of clearly violating the law, they have come forward, plead guilty and paid their fines, or in cases where they were trying to evade the law, prosecutions were had and these prosecutions were generally successful and fines were imposed against them, and the fines and costs were paid. In these prosecutions the state's attorneys in the different counties of the State have generally assisted the department when called upon in prosecuting the cases, but in one or two counties in the central part of the State we have had considerable trouble in securing the services of the state's attorneys, but the department does not intend to abandon prosecutions in those counties, but try to reach the state's attorneys through public sentiment, as I feel confident that the sentiment in those counties is decidedly in favor of prosecuting these violators of the food law, and the department in 1912 will more vigorously look after cases in those. counties than in any former year. As stated, we have had many prosecutions and some of them hotly contested-but in nearly every prosecution the department has been successful for the reason that no prosecutions have been begun until it was satisfactorily demonstrated from all the facts and circumstances that the party or parties accused were clearly guilty of violating the food laws of the State.

Attention is also called to the list of manufacturers, jobbers or dealers of concentrated commercial feed stuffs, who have paid their license fees for the year 1911; also to the financial statement and decisions of the Supreme Court of our State as well as to the form of indictments and informations prepared for the benefit of the attorney of this department as well as the state's attorneys of the different counties of the State to assist them in preparing the prosecutions of the various violations under the food law.

Attention is also called to the bulletins issued by this department since the passage of the new State Food Law, numbering from one to twenty-five, inclusive. A study of these various bulletins will show that they cover nearly all those articles of food that require a special label; also that the law requires foods to be manufactured under sanitary conditions.

Attention is further called to the instructions to inspectors and others submitting samples for analysis; also to the principles upon which food standards are based as well as to tentative food standards adopted by the Illinois State Food Commission.

I desire to call attention to the history of State Food Commission laws, as well as the new revised Dairy and Food laws of 1911, and the Stock Food Law for the sale of concentrated commercial feeding stuffs for live stock and domestic animals as amended in 1911.

Attention is also called to the new National Food Law in force January 1, 1907, which is printed in this report as an appendix to the same. The thanks of the department is hereby tendered to the public press of the State, the Civic Federation and women's clubs, as well as to the food journals and magazines for the valuable assistance rendered the department. Publicity has helped the department very much, as by this publicity the public is informed as to those manufacturers, packers and dealers who are violating our food laws, and the consumers of the State are kept advised as to who these illegal manufacturers and dealers are and accordingly refuse to patronize them.

GENERAL SUMMARY.

I have arranged this report for publication as follows:

1.

2.

Roster of members.

Members of the Illinois State Food Standards' Commission.
Table of contents.

Report of Alfred H. Jones, Commissioner.

Report of John B. Newman, Assistant Commissioner.

3.

4.

Letter of transmittal.

5.

6.

7.

8.

Report of T. J. Bryan, State Analyst, and of Laboratory, including tables of analyses, etc.

Report of Chas. F. McKinley, Attorney.

9. Report of Food Inspectors.

10.

11.

12.

Suits brought, disposed of and still pending.

List of feed stuffs, manufacturers and brands.
Financial statement.

13. Supreme Court decisions.

14. Forms of indictment.

15. Bulletins issued since July 1, 1907.

17.

18.

Instructions to inspectors.

Tentative Food Standards.

Rules and labels.

19. New Revised Illinois Dairy and Food Law of 1907, as amended

in 1911.

20. Oleomargarine Law.

21. Stock Food Law.

22.

National Food Law.

23. Index to report.

All of which is respectfully submitted.

ALFRED H. JONES, State Food Commissioner.

REPORT OF JOHN B. NEWMAN, ASSISTANT
COMMISSIONER.

CHICAGO, Dec. 31, 1911.

Hon. A. H. Jones, State Food Commissioner, Chicago, Ill.:

DEAR SIR-In accordance with the law providing for this commission, I have the honor, as assistant commissioner, to submit to you a report on the duties assigned to me for the year ending Dec. 31, 1911.

HEARINGS.

During the past year the inspectors collected 3,622 samples, of which number 2,982 were samples of food for human consumption and 640 were samples of stock food, all being turned over to the laboratory for analysis.

The report from the laboratory shows that of the total number, 3,622 samples, 2,432 were legal and 1,190 were illegal. Of the illegal samples, 877 were samples of food for human consumption and 313 were stock food samples. Of the 877 samples of human food declared illegal the nature of the violations in 252 cases was of such a character that they could be adjudicated through the mails; as where the article was properly branded with the exception that the size of type was too small or where the relative position of declarations needed a slight shifting or change of wording. When the department was satisfied that these violations were the result of ignorance and not intentional, they allowed the dealer to correct the old label or get new and proper labels, and upon filing an affidavit that the goods had been properly labeled these cases were dismissed without putting the party to the expense and loss of time necessary for a trip to this office. The remaining illegal cases, 625 in number, received the prescribed notice of hearing, and I beg to report sitting at these hearings. Some of the cases required several sessions. The greater part of my time is taken up with these hearings and the necessary correspondence in connection therewith.

I wish to again emphasize the importance of these hearings; they are most valuable. It is at these hearings that those ignorant of the law are enlightened; they get acquainted with the law, the rules and regulations and how they are construed, and go away not only informed as to what they should do but enlightened as to the benefits accruing to themselves and to their customers by the application of the law-how it protects the dealer as well as the consumer-and they are from that day forth supporters of the pure food law. From that time on they insist