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gai'ine, butterine, imitation butter or imitation cheese, shall be 

 construed to mean any article or substance in the semblance of 

 butter or cheese not the usual product of the dairy, and not made 

 exclusively of pure and unadulterated milk or cream, or any such 

 article or substance into which any oil, lard or fat not produced 

 from milk or cream enters as a component part, or into which 

 melted butter or butter in any condition or state, or any oil thereof 

 has been introduced to take the place of cream. The term, adul- 

 terated milk, when so used, means : 



1. Milk containing more than eighty-eight per centum of water 

 or fluids. 



2. Milk containing less than twelve per centum of milk solids. 



3. Milk containing less than three per centum of fats. 



4. Milk drawn from cows within fifteen days before and five 

 days after parturition. 



5. Milk drawn from animals fed on distillery waste or any sub- 

 stance in a state of fermentation or putrefaction or on any un- 

 healthy food. 



6. Milk drawn from cows kept in a crowded or unhealthy con- 

 dition. 



7. Milk from which any part of the cream has been removed. 



8. Milk which has been diluted with water or any other fluid, or 

 to which has been added or into which has been introduced any 

 foreign substance whatever. 



All adulterated milk shall be deemed unclean, unhealthy, im- 

 pure and unwholesome. The terms, pure milk or unadulterated 

 milk, when used singly or together mean sweet milk not adul- 

 terated, and the terms pure cream or unadulterated cream, when 

 used singly or together mean cream taken from pure and unadul- 

 terated milk. 



§ 21. Care and feed of cows. No person shall keep cows, for 

 the production of milk for market or for sale or exchange, or for 

 manufacturing the milk or cream from the same into any article of 

 food, in a crowded or unhealthy condition, or feed any such cows 

 on distillery waste or on any substance in the state of putrefaction 

 or fermentation, or upon any food that is unhealthy or that pro- 

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