VERMONT AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



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CHAPTER 183. 



REGULATING MANUFACTURE AND SAL,E OF 



PROVISIONS. 



Milk and Cheese. 



Section 



4327. Milk, dilution or adulteration of. pen- 



alty for. 



4328. Standard in creameries, etc. 



4329. Samples tested for evidence. 



4330. Disposition of samples. 



4331. Standard milk defined. 



4332. Fraudulent marking of butter and 



cheese. 



4333. Jurisdiction of justice. 



Imitation Butter and Cheese. 



4334. Manufacture of, prohibited. 

 4335- Penalty. 



4336. Imitation of butter sold to be colored 

 pink ; penalty. 



Section 



4337- Victualers using imitation not pink, 



subject to penalty. 

 4338. Analysis of specimens. 

 4339- Warrants to search for imitation 



butter. 



4340. "Butter" denned. 



Lard. 



4341. All but pure fat of swine to be labeled. 



'compound lard." 



4342. Penalty for selling unmarked. 



Maple Sugar and Honey. 



4343. Penalty for adulterating maple sugar 



and honey. 



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 "strippings" 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 suffi- 

 cient, 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 prosecutions 

 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 where, the sample was drawn, from whose milk 

 taken, and signed by the person taking the same and by one or 

 more disinterested witnesses. Upon request a like sample shall 

 be given to such person, his agent or servant, for which a re- 

 ceipt shall be given to the person taking or drawing the same. 



