DUTCH MARGARINE LEGISLATION. _ 237 



of the country for transportation eastward. The percentage 
of the total output of wheat of the United States moved east- 
ward by way of Chicago in the decade 1880-1889 was 3°18, 
while for the eight years beginning 1st January, 1890, it was 
5°08. 

NEw DutcH LAW FOR THE PREVENTION OF FRAUD IN 
THE BUTTER TRADE. 
The Board have received through the Foreign Office a 
copy of a law dated goth July, 1900, for preventing fraudu- 
lent practices in the butter trade in Holland. This law is to 
come into force on a date to be fixed hereafter, and repeals. 
the law of 23rd June, 18809. 
In the new law butter is defined as an article containing 
no fat constituents other than those derived from milk; and 
margarine is defined as an article resembling butter but 
containing fat not derived from milk. Power is reserved to 
give another nam2 than margarine to any mixture resembling 
butter, which may be introduced into the butter-trade, but 
the word “ butter’? must form no part of such name. All 
the provisions of this law which are applicable to margarine, 
are also applicable to such mixtures. 
Margarine may not be sold, kept in a shop or other 
- place of sale accessible to the public, exposed, conveyed,. 
imported, exported or kept in stock for transport or export- 
ation, unless the word “Margarine” appears in legible 
letters on all the packages, or if the article is not packed, on 
the article itself, and the notice must be distinctly visible to 
the customers and the public. 
A dealer in margarine exposed in a market or similar 
place of sale must plaice a board above the article on which 
the word “ Margarine” is inscribed in distinct letters clearly 
visible to the public. If both sides of the board are visible 
to the public, the inscription must be placed on both sides. 
When margarine is on sale in a shop used for the sale of 
that article or for butter and margarine, the inscription 
“margarine” must appear over the outside door, and on the 
