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ter " or " process butter," shall cause each parcel or package of such butter 

 delivered to or for a customer to be wrapped in a light colored paper on 

 which shall be printed in black letters, not less than three-eighths inch 

 square and in Gothic type, the words " renovated butter " or " process butter." 



During the year 13 cases have been referred to the Attorney- 

 General for violation of this provision of the Agricultural Law. 

 They are invariably cases against retail merchants who fail to 

 put the words required by the statute upon the wrapper in which 

 the small package is done up and given to the customer. From 

 the observations made or from the information gathered by agents 

 of the department, I feel that it is safe to assume that in many 

 instances the violations of this statute have been by people who 

 had not been handling the product for any great length of time. 

 It is also quite apparent that in consideration of the large amount 

 of this kind of butter being sold upon the markets to-day and the 

 small number of cases, as above indicated, which the agents of 

 this department have made, the law is being generally observed 

 by dealers of all grades. 



CHEESE 



The provisions of the Agricultural Law relative to cheese are 

 found in the definition of that commodity in section 30 thereof, 

 namely, the term " cheese v means the product of the dairy 

 usually known by that term, which is manufactured exclusively 

 from pure, unadulterated milk or cream or both, with or without 

 salt or rennet, and with or without coloring matter or sage. From 

 this definition it follows that any commodity made in the sem- 

 blance of cheese which is not exclusively from pure milk or cream 

 or both, is not cheese within the meaning and for the purposes 

 of this act. This, taken in connection with section 43 of the 

 Agricultural Law, which prohibits the manufacture and sale of 

 imitation cheese in words as follows : 



No person shall manufacture, deal in, sell, offer or expose for sale or 

 exchange any article or substance, in the semblance of or in imitation of 

 cheese made exclusively of unadulterated milk or cream, or both, into which 

 any animal, intestinal or offal fats or oils, or melted butter or butter in 

 any condition or state or modification of the same, or oleaginous substances 

 of any kind not produced from unadulterated milk or cream, shall be 

 introduced. 



shows plainly the intent of the Legislature that the imitation 

 product into which foreign fats had been introduced as a com- 



