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Another class of offenders were putting into and mixing with 

 dairy products a foreign substance which they called a " pre- 

 servative," and to reach this class the sentence was added, " no 

 person shall sell, offer or expose for sale any butter or other 

 dairy product containing a preservative." 



Nowhere in the Agricultural Law was there anything to 

 punish the man who induced another to do the mixing of a 

 foreign substance with a dairy product; nor to punish the per- 

 son or firm who offered to sell and advertised for sale, fats and 

 animal or vegetable oils; the various coloring matters to make 

 substances resemble butter, or to make white vinegar resemble 

 in color the pure cider vinegar, or who sold the instruments or 

 chemicals, substances or compounds with which the Agricul- 

 tural Law could be violated. 



This was the evil that brought about the last amendment of 

 section 27 and the enactment of chapter 534 of the Laws of 

 1900. It caught the defendant in the meshes of the law and 

 caused him to raise a great hue and cry about abuse of liberty 

 and the Constitution. The act reads as follows: 



" No person or persons, firm, association or corporation shall 

 induce or attempt to induce any person or persons to violate 

 any of the provisions of the Agricultural Law. Any person, 

 firm, association or corporation selling, offering or advertising 

 for sale any substance, preparation or matter for use in 

 violation of the provisions of the Agricultural Law shall be 

 guilty of a violation of this act." 



The entire Agricultural Law has running through it the mani- 

 fest intention of the Legislature to protect the food supplies of 

 the people. It regulates the standard for milk; the kinds of 

 food to be fed to the cows; fixes times when milk from cows 

 cannot be sold; fixes a standard for the purity of vinegar; pro- 

 hibits the sale of bobbed veal and protects butter and cheese 

 from the sale of imitations as butter and cheese. Section 27, 

 containing the enactment under review, is set in and is sur- 

 rounded by and made a part of all this legislation. Surely the 

 Legislature Avas giving its attention to the public health and 



