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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Renovated Butter. 



The flagrant attempts at violating the imitation butter laws 

 have used so nnicli of our appropriation that we could do 

 little by way of enforcing the law in regard to renovated 

 butter, although many notices have been sent to persons 

 selling it, and no attempts at wilful violation have been 

 found. This law is much misunderstood. The State does 

 not interfere with the sale of this article, but asks that it 

 shall be sold honestly, viz., properly marked or labelled. 

 The " New York Produce Review" says : " The process of 

 renovation impresses one as being cleanly and wholesome, 

 and, while incalculable damage might result from an unscru- 

 pulous substitution of this product for genuine butter, its man- 

 ufacture and sale under appropriate designating name must 

 be regarded as beneficial to the butter industry as a whole." 



This tells the whole story ; all that the law asks is that the 

 product shall be sold " under appropriate designating name." 



Buttee. 

 The Chamber of Commerce figures regarding the butter 

 business in Boston for 1900 and the immediately preceding 

 years are as follows : — 



The above shows increased receipts, reduced exports and 

 increased consumption for 1900 over the four previous years. 

 The increased consumption for the year over 1899 was 

 1,827,050 pounds. Such an increase could hardly have 

 occurred had the sale of imitations been unrestricted. It is 



