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WISCONSIN. 



Milk containing 3 per cent, of fat is merchantable milk, pro- 

 vided it has not been diluted or cream abstracted, and is drawn 

 from healthy cows. (Laws 1889, chap. 425.) 



CANADA (PROVINCE OF ONTARIO). 

 All milk containing less than 13 per cent, of total solids, of 

 which 3f per cent, must be chemically dry butter-fat, shall be 

 deemed below the standard required in creameries for butter 

 manufacture. (Vict. 51, chap. 31.) 



LAWS RELATING TO MILK. 

 COLORADO. 

 Chapter 19, Laws of 1895, prescribes the duties of milk inspect- 

 ors. 



CONNECTICUT. 



The Revised Statutes, section 2658, relates to the bringing 

 of milk to butter and cheese factories. Section 2659 provides 

 that the analysis of milk is to be made by the director of the 

 Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. Section 2660 

 requires the words " skimmed milk " to be stamped, etc., on the 

 can, vessel, etc., from wMch such milk is sold. By section 2661 

 the sale of impure or adulterated milk is prohibited. Section 

 2663 provides that notices of these sections are to be posted in 

 all public places, creameries or factories where milk is received 

 or sold. Under section 2664 the seller of milk (which is the 

 product of any cow adjudged to be affected with tuberculosis 

 or other blood disease) is to be fined not more than |7 or im- 

 prisonment not more than thirty days. The violators of the other 

 sections are subject to the same penalty. 



GEORGIA. 



The sale, exposing for sale or delivery of milk for domestic use 

 of adulterated, skimmed or unwholesome milk, etc., is prohibited ; 

 except that buttermilk or skimmed milk can be sold as such. 

 <LawiS 1895, No. 207, p. 66.) Law takes effect January 1, 1896. 



