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NEW JERSEY. 



r.oards of health may prohibit the transportation 'or sale of any 

 milk suspected to be contaminated, and penalties are fixed for the 

 violation of the act. (Laws 1805, chap. 374.) 



NORTH CAROLINA. 



Chapter 5SG Laws 1891 provides that agricultural statistics 

 are to be gathered by tax listers. 



NORTH DAKOTA. 



The possession by any person or firm of any article or sub- 

 stance prhibited by this chapter shall be considered as prima 

 facie evidence that the same is kept by such person or firm in 

 violation of its provisions. The dairy commissioner is author- 

 ized to seize and take possession of such article or substance and, 

 upon the order of any court which has jurisdiction, shall sell the 

 same for any purpose other than for food. The proceeds of the 

 sale of imitation butter shall be paid one-half to the informer 

 and one-half into the State treasury, to be placed to the credit 

 of the State dairy commissioner's fund. (P. C; R. C, 1895, chap. 

 GT, § 7643.) 



Samples or specimens of any article in imitation of butter, or 

 suspected of being of a spurious character_, shall be analyzed or 

 otherwise satisfactorily tested as to compounds by the chemist 

 of the agricultural college at Fargo, free of expense, and a certi- 

 ficate of the analysis sworn to by the analyzer shall be admissible 

 as evidence in all prosecutions under this chapter. 



The sale or offering for sale of the substances mentioned in the 

 foregoing section in .packages not branded, stamped, marked^ or 

 labeled^ as in this chapter required, shall be prima facie evidence 

 of knowledge of the character of such substance on the part of the 

 person so selling or offering the same for sale, and his employer. 



Nothing in this chapter shall be so construed as to prohibit the 

 shipment of butter and cheese without unloading through the 

 State of North Dakota. 



For the purposes of this chapter the term " butter " or " cheese '^ 

 shall be understood to mean the product usually known by that 

 name and which is manufactured exclusively from milk or cream or 

 both. (P. C; R. C, 1895, chap. 67, §§ 7644, 7645, 7647 and 7648.) 



