Commissioner of Agriculture. 487 



SOUTH CAROLINA. 



Imitation butter or cheese is defined to be " every article, sub- 

 stance or compound other than that produced wholly from pure 

 whole-milk or cream from the same made in semblance of butter 

 or cheese and designed to be used as a substitute for butter or 

 cheese " except, that when salt, rennet and harmless coloring 

 matter is used, such product shall not be considered an imitation. 



Coloring matter in substitutes for butter or cheese, causing it 

 to resemble butter or cheese the product of pure milk or cream is 

 prohibited, as is also the combination of animal fat or vegetable 

 oil or other substance with butter or cheese to give the substance 

 a yellow color to resemble genuine yellow butter or cheese, except 

 that the use of salt, rennet or harmless coloring matter is allowed 

 for coloring the product of pure milk or cream from the same. 

 The manufacture and sale of imitation butter or cheese is pro- 

 hibited except under certain regulations. Substitutes for but- 

 ter and cheese when manufactured shall be branded, stamped 

 etc., upon the top and side of each tub, box, or other vessel in 

 which such substitute shall be kept, the words " substitute for 

 butter " or " substitute for cheese," as the case may be. The pos- 

 session of unmarked imitation butter or cheese is prohibited, 

 unless the person has the same in his possession for the actual 

 consumption of himself or family. 



The selling or offering for sale of any imitation butter or cheese 

 under the pretense that the same is genuine butter or genuine 

 cheese is prohibited. The keeper or proprietor of an}' hotel or 

 restaurant who uses or serves therein, either as foiod or for cooking 

 purposes, any imJtation butter or cheese, is required to keep con- 

 spiciously posted a white card with the words " imitation butter 

 used here," or " imitation cheese used here," as the case may be. 

 It is deemed a misdemeanor to violate any of the provisions of 

 the act, punishable by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars and 

 not less than ten dollars, one half to go to the informers through 

 whose agency such conviction shall be made. (Laws 1896, No. 96, 

 p. 216.) 



