VERMONT AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



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CHAPTER 183. 



REGULATING MAUFACTURE AND SALE OF 



PROVISIONS. 



Milk and Cheese. 



Section 

 4327. Milk 



432S 

 4329 

 4330 

 4331 

 4332 



4333- 



dilution or adulteration of, 



penalty for. 

 Standard in creameries, etc. 

 Samples tested for evidence. 

 Disposition of samples. 

 Standard milk defined. 

 Fraudulent marking' of butter and 



cheese. 

 Jurisdiction of justice. 



Imitation Butter and Cheese. 



4334. Manufacture of, prohibited. 

 4335- Penalty. 



4336. Imitation of butter sold to be color- 

 ed pink ; penalty. 



Section. 



Victuallers using imitation not 

 pink, subject to penalty. 



Analysis of specimens. 



Warrants to search for imitation 

 butter. 



"Butter" defined. 



Lard. 



All but pure fat of swine to be 



labeled "compound lard." 

 Penalty for selling unmarked. 



Maple Sit,ar and Honey. 



4343. Penalty for adulterating maple 

 sugar and honey. 



4337- 



433S. 

 4339- 



434°- 



4341- 

 4342. 



MILK AND CHEESE. 



Section 4327. A person who sells or furnishes, or has in 

 his possession with intent to sell or furnish milk diluted with 

 water, adulterated, or not of good standard quality ; or from 

 which the cream or any part has been taken, or keeps back part 

 of the milk known as "shippings' ' shall, for each offense, be 

 fined not more than three hundred dollars and not less than 

 fifty dollars. 



Sec. 4328. In all creameries and cheese factories in this 

 state milk containing four per cent, of butter fat shall be the 

 standard used as a paying basis. 



Sec. 4329. Where, in prosecutions under the preceding 

 section the ordinary means of proof are not available or suffic- 

 ient, sealed samples of the milk sold or furnished, or kept 

 with intent to be sold or furnished, taken from such milk in 

 the presence of at least one disinterested witness and with the 

 knowledge and in the presence of the person or his agent or 

 servant so selling or furnishing, or having in his possession 

 with intent to sell or furnish said milk, may be sent to the 

 state agricultural experiment station to be tested; the result 

 of such test shall be deemed competent evidence in such prose- 

 ecutions but shall not exclude other evidence. 



Sec. .4330. Said samples shall be placed in tin or glass 

 vessels securely sealed with a label thereon stating the time 

 when, place wdiere, the sample was drawn, from whose milk 

 taken and signed by the person taking the same and bv one 

 or more disinterested witnesses. Upon request a like sample 

 shall be given to such person, his agent or servant, for which 

 a receipt shall be given to the person taking or drawing the 

 same. 



