The Bulletin. 



LARD. 



Lard is the rendered fresh fat from hogs in good health at the time 

 of slaughter, is clean, and free from rancidity. 



It seems to be a custom among dealers of the State that when a 

 customer calls for lard to furnish him with lard or compound lard, as 

 it suits the dealer's convenience. 



Compound lard composed of cotton-seed oil and clean, nonrancid 

 stearin is a good food product, but it is not lard, and the sale of it as 

 lard is a violation of the law. 



CHEESE. 



Cheese is a sound, solid, and ripened product made from milk or 

 cream, and contains, in the water-free substance, not less than 50 per 

 cent of milk fat. 



Skim-milk cheese is a sound, solid, and ripened product, made from 

 skim-milk. 



It seems to be the custom of dealers to sell at retail skim-milk cheese 

 as cheese. The sale of skim-milk cheese or a product containing 

 less than the required amount of milk fat as cheese is a violation of 

 the law. Such sale is a fraud, and if detected will be prosecuted under 

 the Food Law. 



