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able device or motto, and the words, " New York state full- 

 cream cheese." Every such brand shall be used upon the outside 

 of the cheese and shall bear a different number for each separate 

 factory. The commissioner shall keep a book, in which shall be 

 registered the name, location and number of each manufactory 

 using the brand, and the name or names of the persons at each 

 manufactory authorized to use the same. No such brand shall 

 be used upon any other than full-cream cheese or packages con- 

 taining the same. (As amended by chapter 559 of the Laws of 1898.) 



§ 34. TJse of false brand prohibited. — No person shall offer, sell, 

 or expose for sale, in any package, butter or cheese which is 

 falsely branded or labeled. 



§ 35. County trade marks. — At a regular or special meeting 

 of a county dairymen's association in any county of the state there 

 may be adopted a county trade mark, by a majority of the mem- 

 bers present and voting, to be used as a trade mark by am * person 

 manufacturing pure unadulterated butter or full-cream cheese in 

 such county. The secretary of the association shall forthwith 

 send to the commissioner of agriculture a copy of such trade mark, 

 which copy he shall place on file in his office, noting thereupon the 

 day and hour he received the same. But one county trade mark 

 for butter and for cheese shall be placed on file for the same 

 county. No association shall adopt any trade mark of any county 

 already on file, or use that of any other county in the formation 

 of a trade mark. 



§ 36. Object and intent of this article. — This article and each 

 section thereof are declared to be enacted to prevent deception in 

 the sale of dairy products, and to preserve the public health, which 

 is endangered by the manufacture, sale and use of the articles or 

 substances herein regulated or prohibited. 



§ 37. Every person violating any of the provisions of the agri- 

 cultural law shall forfeit to the people of the state of New York 

 the sum of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred 



*So in the original. 



