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public entertainment where the commodity will be stripped of its 

 wrappings and the only method by which its true character can 

 be determined is by the application of the senses of the consumer, 

 particularly that of sight. And if the goods are tinted so as to re- 

 semble yellow butter deception is quite probably a result. It is 

 this deception as well as the other that the statute is aimed at. 



BUTTER 



There have been employed during the year two butter instruc- 

 tors who visited the various factories of the State to give in- 

 struction to butter makers. The principal criticisms they offered 

 were improper incorporation of salt, producing an uneven color 

 in finished goods; condition of the cream; method of handling 

 over-run; poor quality of commercial starter; disregard of tem- 

 peratures, etc. These men have also passed on butter for State 

 institutions. 



VINEGAE 



Article IV defines cider vinegar and adulterated vinegar, regu- 

 lates the branding or marking of adulterated vinegar, and pro- 

 hibits the sale of vinegar as and for cider vinegar which is not 

 cider vinegar. This part of the statute prohibits the sale of any 

 vinegar containing artificial color and certain other vinegars, 

 namely, those containing red copper, sulphuric acid, or other in- 

 gredients injurious to health, and it requires an acidity of four 

 per cent in all vinegars and two per cent, solids in cider vinegar. 

 The law also requires that all vinegar manufacturers shall brand 

 the container in which they put up their product with their name 

 and place of business, the kind of vinegar contained therein, and 

 substance or substances from which it is made ; prohibits the brand- 

 ing as and for cider vinegar of any vinegar which is not cider vine- 

 gar; and requires the retailer in making sales aside from the origi- 

 nal unbroken package to place upon the receptacle in which it is 

 delivered to the consumer the kind of vinegar so delivered and the 

 substance or substances from which it is made. 



As a rule, the requirements as to branding and marking of 

 packages is observed by the manufacturers and the retail dealers. 

 But a goodly proportion of the violations is due to lack of knowl- 



