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water, adulterated or not of good standard quality or milk or 

 cream which has been treated with chemicals, shall for each of- 

 fense, be fined not more than three hundred dollars and not less 

 than fifty dollars, and any person who sells or ofiters for sale 

 or furnishes milk from which the cream or any part has been 

 taken or keeps back part of the milk known as "strippings" with- 

 out the full knowledge of the person to whom such milk shall 

 be sold or offered for sale or furnished shall for each offense, be 

 fined as previously provided for in this section in cases of 

 adulteration. 



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

 State milk containing four percent, 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 pres- 

 ence of at least one disinterested witness and with the knowledge 

 and in the presence of the person or his agent or servant so sell- 

 ing or furnishing, or having in his possession with intent to sell 

 or furnish, said milk may be sent to the state agricultural ex- 

 periment 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 receipt 

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



Sec. 4331. Standard milk shall contain not less than twelve 

 and one-half percent of solids, or not less than nine and one- 

 fourth of total solids exclusive of fat, except in the months of 

 May and June, when it shall contain not less than twelve per- 

 cent, of total solids. This rule shall govern tests made at the 

 experiment station, and an officer or employee thereof found 

 guilty of fraud in making tests shall be fined one thousand 

 dollars. 



Sec. 4332. A person who marks or otherwise designates 

 or causes to be marked or otherwise designated as "creamery" 

 butter or cheese, or the package in which it is contained, when 

 such butter or cheese is not manufactured at a creamery, or sells 

 or offers to sell any such butter or cheese so marked, shall be 

 fined not more than three hundred dollars and not less than fifty 

 dollars. 



