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three hundred dollars and not less than fifty dollars, and any person 

 who sells or offers for sale or furnishes milk from which the cream or 

 any part has been taken or keeps back part of the milk known as 

 "strippings" without the full knowledge of the person to whom such 

 milk shall be sold or offered for sale or furnished shall for each offense, 

 be fined as previously provided for in this section in cases of adultera- 

 tion. 



Sec. 4328. In all creameries and cheese factories in this State milk 

 containing four per cent, of butter fat shall be the standard used as a 

 paying basis. 



Sec. 4329. Where, in prosecutions under the preceding section the 

 ordinary means of proof are not available or sufficient, sealed samples 

 of the milk sold or furnished, or kept with intent to be sold or furnished, 

 taken from such milk in the presence of at least one disinterested wit- 

 ness and with the knowledge and in the presence of the person or his 

 agent or servant so selling or furnishing, or having in his possession 

 with intent to sell or furnish, said milk may be sent to the state agricul- 

 tural experiment station to be tested; the result of such test shall be 

 deemed competent evidence in such prosecutions, but shall not exclude 

 other evidence. 



Sec. 4330. Said samples shall be placed in tin or glass vessels securely 

 sealed with a label thereon stating the time when, place where, the 

 sample was drawn, from whose milk taken and signed by the person 

 taking the same and by one or more disinterested witnesses. Upon 

 request a like sample shall be given to such person, his agent or ser- 

 vant, for which a receipt shall be given to the person taking or drawing 

 the same. 



Sec. 4331. Standard milk shall contain not less than twelve and one- 

 half per cent, of solids, or not less than nine and one-fourth of total 

 solids exclusive of fat, except in the months of May and June, when it 

 shall contain not less than twelve per cent, of total solids. This rule 

 shall govern tests made at the experiment station, and an officer or 

 employee thereof found guilty of fraud in making tests shall be fined 

 one thousand dollars. 



Sec. 4332. A person who marks or otherwise designates or causes to 

 be marked or otherwise designated as "creamery" butter or cheese, or 

 the package in which it is contained, when such butter or cheese is not 

 manufactured at a creamery, or sells or offers to sell any such butter or 

 cheese so marked, shall be fined not more than three hundred dollars 

 and not less than fifty dollars. 



Sec. 4333. Justices shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the county 

 court in prosecutions under the four preceding sections. 



IMITATIONS OF BUTTER AND CHEESE. 



Sec. 4334. No person by himself, his agent, or servant, shall manu- 

 facture out of animal fat, or animal or vegetable oils not produced from 

 unadulterated milk or cream, any article in imitation of butter or 



