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complying with the law subjects the article to confiscation, and 

 the party to punishment lor a penal offense, in the payment 

 of heavy fines. 



It also reaches the question of milk. Very many experiments 

 are made to see whether it is good or bad. There are a good many 

 prosecutions. They do not come to the notice of everyone, but 

 they are still prosecuted with a good deal of earnestness. It has 

 been proposed that the state shall establish a universal inspec- 

 tion bureau to examine all the foods that are sold in the state. 

 I hope that purpose may be accomplished; there is certainly 

 great opportunity for it. Such legislation has been had in other 

 states some time ago iu this direction. 



The State of Michigan, in 1881, enacted a stringent law in re- 

 gard to the adulteration of foods, from which I read the follow- 

 ing: 



Skc. 4. No person shall mix any glucose or grape sugar with syrup, honey 

 or sugar intended for human food, or any oleomargarine, suine, beef fat, lard, 

 or any other foreign substance, with any other butter or cheese intended for 

 human food, or shall mix or mingle any glucose or grape sugar or oleomarga- 

 rine with any article of food, without distinctly marking, stamping, or label- 

 ing the article, or the package containing the same, with the true and appro- 

 priate name of such article, and the percentage in which glucose or grape sugar, 

 oleomargarine or suine, enter into its composition; nor shall any person sell, or 

 offer for sale, or order, or permit to be sold, or offer for sale, any food into the 

 composition of which glucose, or grape sugar, or oleomarga,rine, or suine has 

 entered, without at the sime time informing the buyer of the fact, and the 

 proportion in which such glucose or grape sugar, oleomargarine or suine has 

 entered into its composition. 



Sec. 5. Any person convicted of violating any provision of any of the fore- 

 going sections of this act shall be fined not more than fifty dollars or impris- 

 oned in the county jail not exceeding three months. 



Sec. 6. It is hereby made the duty of the prosecuting attorney^ of this 

 state to appear for the people and to attend to the prosecution of all complaints 

 under this act in all the courts in their respective counties. 



When we shall have accomplished the same thing in this 

 state. Amber cane syrups will be a common article of commerce 

 iu this country, and will be as profitable as any other article 

 being produced. 



I have gone through the experience. I have made the best 

 Amber cane or sugar cane syrup that was ever offered in any 

 country, when engaged in this business. I had all the appliances 

 for making the best refined syrup of the same character made 

 years ago by the old sugar establishments; and when a sample 

 of it was sent to Prof. Moore, the chemist of a large sugar refin- 



