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One dealer used wrappers marked "Sterilized Renovated 

 Butter." 



It goes without saying that the law is unpopular with 

 would-be or actual dealers in this kind of butter. This 

 unpopularity has been increased this season by the high 

 price of butter, which has stimulated the demand for the 

 lower grades, and, as one market reporter says, has proved 

 ' ' a bonanza for dealers in renovated butter." Why a bonanza, 

 unless because they were selling at abnormal profits, and 

 inferentially dishonestly? The objection is to the word 

 "renovated," which is said to carry a stigma, and to be a 

 derogatory expression which injures the sale of this butter. 

 Dealers prefer the word "sterilized;" but "renovated" is 

 an honest appellation, while " sterilized" is not. 



Butter. 

 The following table shows the extreme quotation for the 

 best fresh creamery butter in a strictly wholesale way in the 

 Boston market for five years : — 



