66 FOOD LEGISLATION, YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1908. 



SEC. 54. " Sale " defined. The taking of orders or the making of agreements 

 or contracts by any person, firm or corporation, or by an agent or representa- 

 tive thereof, for the future delivery of any " flour compound " or " meal com- 

 pound " shall deemed a a sale within the meaning of this Act. 



Session Laws 1907-1908, ch. 37, p. 422. 



HONEY. 

 

 See General Food Laws, sec. 44, page 58. 



LARD. 



SEC. 39. Exemptions; lard compoun < and substitute defined. The provisions 

 of this Act shall not apply to substances for sale in this state, made in the 

 semblance of lard, if the ingredients or component parts shall consist of pure 

 lard, beef fat or pure steariue and cottonseed oil that is one per cent of the 

 legitimate and exclusive fat of the hog, .or pure lard, pure stearine or beef fat, 

 and ninety-nine per cent of cottonseed oil, and the tierce, tub, pail or package con- 

 taining the same is distinctly and legibly branded, marked or labeled, " lard com- 

 pound " or " compound lard " or " lard substitute " in letters proportional to 

 the size of the package, and if such mixture contain any other substance than 

 pure lard, pure stearine or beef fat, or pure cottonseed oil, then the person or 

 corporation so manufacturing shall cause the tierce, barrel, tub, pail or package 

 containing the same to be distinctly and legibly branded, marked or labeled 

 " adulterated lard " the term " lard compound " or " compound lard," as 

 used herein, shall include all articles of food used as lard, or made in the 

 semblance of lard, which shall be composed of two or more ingredients or com- 

 ponent parts, consisting of either cottonseed oil, pure lard or hog lard, beef fat 

 or pure stearine, the percentage of either of the two or more ingredients used 

 to be in the discretion of the manufacturer. The term " lard substitute," as 

 used herein, shall apply to any compound which may consist of two or more 

 of the aforesaid ingredients or of cottonseed oil alone. Neither shall the pro- 

 visions of this Act apply to mixtures or compounds consisting of mixtures 

 of beef suet, beef fat or pure stearine, and cottonseed oil, or of cottonseed oil 

 alone, when said mixtures or compounds used as ordinary articles of food, or 

 cooking "compounds" are manufactured and sold under their proper trade- 

 mark, and when the tierce, barrel, tub, pail or package containing the same 

 shall be distinctly and legibly branded or labeled with the name of the mixture 

 or compound, in letters proportioned to the size of the package, and the name 

 and location of the person, firm or corporation manufacturing the same. 



SEC. 40. Labeling of lard compounds, etc. Every manufacturer, trader or 

 dealer who, by himself or agent, or as the servant or agent of another person, 

 offers or exposes for sale, or sells or exchanges any form of lard substitute 

 or adulterated lard as hereinbefore defined, shall securely fix or cause to be 

 affixed to the package wherein the name is contained, offered for sale or 

 sold, a label upon the outside and face of which is distinctly and legibly printed 

 in letters not less than one-half inch in length, the words " lard substitute," 

 " adulterated lard " or " lard compound " or other appropriate words which 

 shall correctly express its nature and use. 



SEC. 41. Possession of lard substitute cridcnce of intent to sell. The having 

 hi possession of any lard substitute or adulterated lard compound, as herein- 

 before defined, which is not branded or labeled as hereinbefore required or 



So in Statutes. 



