OLEOM AEG AEINE. 599 



VIRGINIA ANTICOLOR LAW. 

 (Approved January 29, 1898.) 



The manufacture or sale of any article made wholly or partly from any fat or 

 oil not produced from unadulterated milk or cream, which is in imitation of pure 

 yellow butter, is prohibited; but oleomargarine, butterine, or kindred compound, 

 made in such form and sold in such manner as will advise the consumer of its real 

 character, and free from color or other ingredient to cause it to look like butter, is 

 permitted. Signs, with the words "Imitation butter used here," shall be displayed 

 in eating places, bakeries, etc., where the articles above named are used. 



WASHINGTON ANTICOLOR LAW. 

 (Approved March 11, 1895.) 



No article which is in imitation of pure yellow butter and is not made wholly 

 from pure milk or cream, with or without harmless coloring matter, shall be manu- 

 factured, sold, or used in any public eating house or eleemosynary or penal institu- 

 tion, etc., but oleomargarine, free from color or other ingredient to make it look 

 like butter, and made in such form and sold in such manner as will advise the 

 consumer of its real character, is permitted. 



WEST VIRGINIA PINK LAW. 

 (Approved February 16, 1891.) 



Any substance in semblance of butter or cheese, and not made wholly from impure 

 milk or cream, and packages containing such substances, shall be plainly marked; 

 printed statements explaining the character of the substance must be given to 

 onsumers. 



Oleomargarine. Oleomargarine and artificial and adulterated batter shall be 

 colored pink. 



WISCONSIN ANTICOLOR LAW. 

 (Laws of 1895.) 



Any article made partly or wholly out of any fat or oil, etc., not from pare milk or 

 cream, and in imitation of yellow butter, is prohibited ; but oleomargarine, free 

 from color or other ingredient to make it look like butter, and made in such form 

 and sold in such manner as will advise the consumer of its real character, is permit- 

 ted. It shall not be sold as butter. All packages exposed for sale must be plainly 

 marked "Oleomargarine." Signs must be displayed in selling places and on wagons. 

 Hotels, etc., using it mast notify guests. Use not permitted in charitable or penal 

 institutions. 



WYOMING. 



No dairy laws. 



STATES WITH ANTICOLOR LAWS. 



The population of the States which have passed laws forbidding the 

 sale of oleomargarine colored in semblance of butter, as shown by the 

 census of 1890, is as follows: 



Population. 



New York 5, 997, 853 



Pennsylvania 5,228,014 



Illinois 3,826,351 



Ohio 3,672,316 



Missouri 2,679,184 



Massachusetts 2, 238, 943 



Michigan 2,093,889 



Iowa 1,911,896 



Kentucky 1,858,635 



Georgia 1,837,353 



Tennessee 1, 766, 518 



Wisconsin 1,686,880 



Virginia 1,655,980 



Alabama 1,513,017 



New Jersey 1,444,933 



Minnesota 1,301,826 



California 1,208,130 | Total 50,117,440 



(*17) 



Population. 



South Carolina 1, 151, 149 



Nebraska 1,058,910 



Maryland 1,042,390 



West Virginia 762,794 



Connecticut 746,253 



Maine 661,086 



Colorado 41^,198 



New Hampshire 376,530 



Washington 349,390 



Oregon 313,767 



Vermont 332,442 



South Dakota 328,808 



Utah 207,905 



North Dakota 182,711 



Delaware 168,493 



