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that it shall not be sold or advertised for sale for other than 

 what it really is. Another, that no article, substance or com- 

 pound shall be sold if made in imitation of yellow butter or 

 cheese unless made wholly from milk or cream. 



Another law provides that oleomargarine shall not be sold 

 when butter is called for, that it shall not be served to guests 

 of hotels, boarding houses, restaurants or lunch carts without 

 customers being notified what it is. 



Some very important changes were made in the milk law by 

 striking out the words "knowingly and willfully" which made 

 it necessary to prove that any adulteration had been "know- 

 ingly" and "willfully" done, a fact almost impossible to prove. 



The law was added to, so that milk or cream cannot now be 

 sold when taken from cows kept in an unclean or unsanitary 

 condition, or when handled or kept in cans or other utensils kept 

 in an unclean or unsanitary condition ; it was further amended 

 so that legal or standard milk must contain three per cent fat, 

 nine per cent solids not fat and twelve per cent total solids. By 

 this means, milk rich in fat could not be watered without reduc- 

 ing the solids not fat below the standard and makes prosecu- 

 tions possible. 



However, I am also of the opinion that either the fat stand- 

 ard should be raised to three and one-half per cent, or the solids 

 not fat reduced to eight and one-half per cent, which would 

 make the standard compare more closely with actual conditions 

 than at present. 



During the year 1905, an efifort was made to inform all deal- 

 ers in dairy products and their imitations, of the changes in the 

 law, so that if any violations were made, they would be know- 

 ingly done. 



The dairy laws were compiled and mailed to all dealers whose 

 names appeared in the year-book, also to all the creameries. 

 Abstracts from the laws were published by most of the daily 

 and weekly newspapers of the State, and an effort was made to 

 visit personally these dealers and explain the changes, but with 

 all this effort, when we began to make inspections later, many 

 were found, who disclaimed any knowledge of a law covering 

 the sale of imitation products. 



During the past year, the record shows that 1,178 inspections 

 of stores and 270 inspections of restaurants and hotels were 



