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Section 38. Food Commissioner to Make Rules and Regu- 

 lations. — The State Food Commissioner shall make rules and 

 regulations for carrying out the provisions of this Act, and shall 

 have power to make rules and regulations for the analyzing and 

 reporting the results thereof, of articles submitted for analysis 

 by the State Board of Health, and regulating the analyzing and 

 reporting thereon of samples taken under any law or laws of the 

 United States by any person hereunder, or furnished by any 

 officer or employe charged with the enforcement of the laws of 

 the United States relative to the manufacture, sale or transpor- 

 tation of adulterated, misbranded, poisonous or deleterious 

 foods, dairy products or articles manufactured from dairy pro- 

 ducts or liquors. 



Section 39. Standard for Purity and Strength. — In the en- 

 forcement of this Act, and in the construction thereof, the fol- 

 lowing named articles of food stuffs, when offered for sale or 

 exposed for sale, or sold, shall conform to the analytical re- 

 quirements set opposite each, respectively : 



Milk shall contain not less than three (3) per cent of milk 

 fat and not less than eight and one-half (8.5) per cent of 

 solids, not fat. 



Cream shall contain not less than eighteen per cent of 

 milk fat. 



Maple Sugar shall contain not less than sixty-five one 

 hundredths (0.65) per cent of maple ash in the water-free sub- 

 stance. 



Honey is laevo-rotatory, contains not more than twenty- 

 five (25) per cent of water, not more than twenty-five hund-'; 

 redths (0.25) per cent of ash and not more than eight (8) per 

 cent of sucrose. 



Cloves shall contain not more than five (5) per cent of 

 clove stems, not less than ten (10) per cent of volatile ether ex- 

 tract, not less than twelve (12) per cent of quercitannic and not 

 more than eight (8) per cent of total ash, not more than five 

 tenths (0.5) per cent of ash insoluble in hydrochloric acid, and 

 not more than ten (10) per cent of crude fiber. 



