HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



SELLING MANUFACTURED 

 HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS 



statutes Qoverning Manufacture and 

 Sale of Food Products 



A rapidly increasing number of farm- 

 ers, housewives, and others in Massachu- 

 setts are engaging in the business of 

 producing and selling canned and manu- 

 factured horticultural products. The 

 selling is being done by direct sale, 

 through roadside stands and tea rooms 

 and to a small degree by consignment to 

 regular retail dealers. 



A large percentage of the commodities 

 thus produced and sold are not correctly 

 or legally labelled. In order to help cor- 

 rect this evil, which sooner or later will 

 result in trouble and possible prosecu- 

 tion for those engaged in the business, 

 the Department of Horticultural Manu- 

 factures at the Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural College cooperating with the Direc- 

 tor of Standards, State Department of 

 Labor and Industries, offers the following 

 suggestions and summary of the Massa- 

 chusetts statutes governing the produc- 

 tion and sale of such food products. 



Laber Must State Contents 



With the exception of packages con- 

 taining one-half ounce, or less, which are 

 exempted, it is illegal to sell or offer 

 for sale food products, unless the net con- 

 tents of the package be plainly and con- 

 spicuously marked thereon, in terms of 

 weight, measure or count. This state- 

 ment of net contents by weight, measure 

 or count shall appear on the LABEL to- 

 gether with the name and address of 

 the producer, as well as a true state- 

 ment of the nature of the contents. It 

 is not legal to label any combination of 

 materials as being any single one. For 

 instance, a jelly made from a combina- 

 tion of juices must carry a statement 

 to that effect on the label. An excep- 

 tion may be a case wherein trade custom 

 has given a distinctive name to a com- 

 bination of raw materials, as "succotash." 



Statement of Weight 



The weight of the contents of a package 

 must be printed in type of a size not 

 smaller than 8 point (brevier) CAPI- 

 TALS, except where the size of the pack- 

 age is such as to make the use of 8 point 

 impossible, in which case the size of the 

 type-face may be reduced proportionately. 



The weights as indicated on the label 

 must show the weight of the food con- 

 tained in the package and .shall not in- 

 clude the weight of any liquid that may 

 have added for purposes of filling or pro- 

 cessing. An instance is canned peas. 

 Here the weight of the peas should ap- 

 pear on the label and no record be made 

 of the weight of the water or brine added 



to fill the jar and insure the processing. 



Statements of weight shall be in avoir- 

 dupois pounds and ounces. Statements 

 of measure shall be in terms of U. S. 

 standard gallon of 231 cubic inches and 

 its customary subdivisions; i. e. in gal- 

 lons, quarts, pints and fluid ounces, and 

 shall express the volume at a temperature 

 of 68° F. 



The quantity of the contents may be 

 stated in terms of minimum weight, or 

 minimum measure, as "minimum weight, 

 10 oz." or "minimum volume, 1 gal.", but 

 such statement must approximate the 

 actual quantity and there shall be no 

 tolerance below the stated minimum. 



It would be well for those now en- 

 gaged in this business or contemplating 

 a start in this woi-k to apply to the Di- 

 rector of Standards, State House, Boston, 

 for Bulletin No. 1 officially covering the 

 legal side of production and sale. Such 

 bulletins are free and it is much better 

 and easier to start right than to start 

 wrong and possibly get into difficulties 

 later. 



License Required 



As a rule, any person conducting sales 

 through tea rooms, or who sells in or 

 from a tent, booth, building or other 

 structure, is required by statute to be 

 licensed as a transient vendor, while those 

 going from town to town or from place 

 to place in the same town must be licensed 

 as hawkers or peddlers. These licenses 

 are issued by the Director of Standards 

 from whom information may be obtained 

 as to the application of the statute in 

 any particular case. 



LARGE ATTENDANCE AT 



MILLINERY CLASSES 



! Miss Sarah Farley Conducting the 

 Classes 



Miss Sarah Farley from Torrington, 

 Connecticut who has been in Hampshire 

 County for the past three seasons con- 

 ducting millineiy classes was in the coun- 

 ty the first of the month having meetings 

 in Williamsburg, Granby and Easthamp- 

 ton. 



Miss Farley has made many friends in 

 the county and she has had the largest 

 clas.ses this year, each class averaging 

 around sixteen members. 



The Williamsburg group made eighteen 

 hats at an average cost of $1.89 a piece. 

 The Granby group made twenty-one hats 

 at average cost per hat of $2.45 and the 

 Easthampton ladies made ten hats for 

 $2.65 per hat. A large percentage of 

 these hats have been priced at from eight 

 to twelve dollars. Of course the reno- 

 vated hats where old material was used 

 would not be in that class. 



NORTHAMPTON 

 NATIONAL BANK 



WARREN M. KING, President 



C. H. PIERCE, Vice-President 



EDWIN K. ABBOTT, Cashier 



J. MALCOLM WARREN, Ass't. Cashier 



CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $718,000 

 DKPOSITS, $3. .300.000 



Savings Department 

 Interest Payable Quarterly 



We are qualified to act as Executor, 

 Administrator and Trustee 



Why not make your will appointing 

 this Bank as Executor? 



THE BANK FOR EVERYBODY 



W. H. RILEY 8C CO. 



1,1 MItING and HEATING 



KIT<HEN FlIRNISHIXGS ^ 



AGEKTS FOR ^' 



<ilren\v(MMl Itanf^eK 



antl Lowe |{r<»s. Paint?, 



i-)pp. Pu.>it Ollice Northampton, Mass, 



The habit of Saving 



Is at the bottom of most 

 big successes in the busi- 

 ness world. Begin the 

 habit by opening a savings 

 account with the Hayden- 

 ville Savings Bank. One 

 dollar is enough to start 

 with. 



BANK BY MAIL 



HAYDENVILLE SAVINGS BANK 



HAYDENVILLB, MASS. 



