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the same, or wherever the value of milk or cream is determined by the per cent of butter fat contained in the same by the Babcock test.

2. In sampling cream or milk from which composite tests are to be made to determine the per cent of butter fat contained therein, no such sample or sampling shall be lawful unless a sample be taken from each weighing and the quantity thus used shall be proportioned to the total weight of the cream or milk tested.

3. Every person, corporation or company operating a creamery when using the Babcock test as a standard to determine the value of any milk or cream received or bought by such person, corporation or company to be manufactured into butter, shall, when paying for such milk or cream, nclude in every statement or check issued to any patron in payment thereof a statement of the number of pounds of butter fat and the number of pounds of butter made for the period of time for which payment is made.

Sale of false measure a misdemeanor. Section 1494ab. (Sec. 2, ch. 43, 1903.) Any manufacturer, merchant, dealer or agent in this state who shall offer for sale or sell a milk pipette or measure, test tube or bottle which is not correctly marked or graduated as here n provided shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as provided in section 4 of this act.

To under-read or over-read unlawful. Section 1494ac. (Sec. 3, ch. 43, 1903, and Sec. 1, ch. 99, 1905.) It shall be unlawful for the owner, manager, agent or any employee of a cheese factory, creamery, or condensed milk factory to falsely. manipulate or under-read or over-read the Babcock test or any other contrivance used for determining the quality or value of milk or cream or to make any false determination by said Babcock test or otherwise.

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Penalty for violating either of the preceding sections. tion 1494ad. (Sec. 4, ch. 43, laws of 1903, as amended by ch. 99, laws of 1905.) Whoever shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each and every offense, or be imprisoned in the county jail not less than thirty days nor more than sixty days.

To prevent the adulteration of malted liquors.

CHAPTER 393, 1909.

SECTION 1. There are added to the statutes three new sections to read: Section 1557s. No person by himself, his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of any other person, or as the servant or agent of any firm or corporation, shall expose or offer for sale or sell any malted liquors which do not conform to the legal definitions and standards established by section 1557t unless each package, barrel, keg or bottle containing the same shall have plainly marked thereon in the English language in black ink with type not smaller than eight point bold faced Gothic capitals the correct names of, and quantity of each ingredient used in the manufacture of such malted l'quors. This section shall not apply to malted liquors shipped out of the state.

Section 1557t. In all prosecutions arising under the provisions of this statute for the manufacture or sale of adulterated, misbranded or otherwise unlawful malted l'quors, the following definitions and standards shall be the legal definitions and standards, to-wit:

(1) Malt liquor is a beverage made by the alcoholic fermentation of an infusion, in potable water, of barley malt and hops, with or without unmalted grains or decorticated and degerminated grains.

(2) Beer is a malt liquor produced by bottom fermentation. (3) Lager beer, stored beer, is beer which has been stored for a sufficient period to produce approximate end fermentation. (4) Malt beer is beer made of an infusion, in potable water, of barley malt and hops.

(5) Ale is a malt liquor produced by top fermentation.

(6) Porter and stout are varieties of malt liquors made in part from highly roasted malt.

Section 1557u. Any person, who shall violate any of the provisions of sections 1557s and 1557t, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 1909.

Relating to the prevention of the adulteration of and fraud in the sale of linseed oil, turpentine, white lead, oxide of zinc, and linseed oil compounds.

CHAPTER 352, 1909.

SECTION 1. There is added to the statutes a new section to read: Section 1636 1. No person by himself, his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of any other person, or as the servant or agent of any firm or corporation, shall sell, offer or expose for sale or have in possession with intent to sell as and for "raw flaxseed oil" or "raw linseed oil?' any oil unless the same is obtained from the seeds of the flax plant and unless the same fulfills all the requirements for linseed oil laid down in the eighth decenn al revision of the United States pharmacopoeia; or as and for "boiled linseed oil" or "boiled flaxseed oil" any oil unless the same shall have been prepared by heating pure raw linseed oil with or without the addition of not to exceed four (4) per cent of dr er to a temperature not less than two hundred twenty-five (225) degrees Fahrenheit. And for the purpose of this act, it shall also be deemed a violation of this act if said boiled linseed oil does not conform to the following requirements: First, its specific gravity at sixty degrees Fahrenheit must be not less than nine hundred thirty-five thousandths (0.935) and not greater than nine hundred forty-five thousandths (0.945); second, its saponification value (Koettstorfer figure) must not be less than one hundred eighty-six (186); third, its iodine number must not be less than one hundred sixty (160); fourth, its acid value must not exceed ten (10); fifth, the volatile matter expelled at two hundred twelve (212) degrees Fahrenheit must not exceed one-half of one per cent; sixth, no mineral or other foreign oil or free rosin shall be present, and the amount of unsaponifiable matter as determined by standard methods shall not exceed two and five-tenths (2.5) per cent; seventh, the film left after the flowing the oil over glass and allowing it to dra'n in a vertical position must dry free from tackiness in not to exceed twenty hours, at a temperature of about seventy degrees Fahrenheit.

2. Nor shall any person by himself, his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of any other person, or as the servant or agent of any firm or corporation, sell, expose or offer for sale or have in possession with intent to sell, any raw or boiled linseed oil unless it is so done under its true name, and each tank car, tank, barrel, keg, can or vessel of such oil has distinctly and durably painted, stamped, stenciled or marked thereon the true name

of such oil in ordinary bold faced capital letters, not less than five-line pica in size, in the words, "Pure Linseed Oil-Raw" or "Linseed Oil-Boiled," as the case may be, and the name and address of the manufacturer thereof.

3. Linseed oil compounds designed to take the place of raw or boiled linseed oil, whether sold, offered or exposed for sale, under invented proprietary names or titles, or otherwise, shall bear conspicuously upon the conta ning receptacle in which the same is kept for sale or sold, in ordinary bold faced capital letters not less than five-line pica in size, the word "Compound," followed immediately with the true distinctive names of the actual ingredients in the order of their greater preponderance, in the English language, in plain legible type of the same style, not less than three-l'ne pica in size, in continuous list with no intervening matter of any kind and shall also bear the name and dress of the manufacturer.

4. Nor shall any person by himself, his servant, or agent, or as the servant or agent of any other person, or as the servant or agent of any firm or corporation, sell, offer or expose for sale or have in possession with intent to sell as and for dry white lead any substance other than basic carbonate of lead or basic sulphate of lead; nor shall any person by himself, his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of any other person, or as the servant or agent of any firm or corporation, sell, offer or expose for sale or have in possession with intent to sell as and for white lead in oil, any product other than basic carbonate of lead ground in pure linseed oil or basic sulphate of lead ground in pure linseed oil; nor shall any person by himself, his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of any other person, or as the servant or agent of any firm or corporation, sell, offer or expose for sale or have in possession with intent to sell any basic carbonate of lead ground in linseed o`l, unless each keg, can or other receptacle containing the same has distinctly and durably painted, stamped, stenciled or marked thereon the words, "white lead, basic carbonate, in oil," and the name and address of the manufacturer or jobber thereof; nor shall any person by himself, his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of any other person, or as the servant or agent of any firm or corporation, sell, offer or expose for sale or have in possession with intent to sell any basic sulphate of lead ground in linseed oil, unless each cask, keg or other receptacle containing the same has distinctly and durably painted, stamped, stenciled or marked thereon the words "white lead, basic sulphate, in oil," and the name and address of the manufacturer or jobber thereof; nor shall any

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person by himself, his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of any other person, or as the servant or agent of any firm or corporation, sell, offer or expose for sale or have in possession with intent to sell as and for dry oxide of zinc, or zinc oxide, or zine white, any substance other than commercially pure oxide of zinc; nor shall any person by himself, his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of any other person, or as the servant or agent of any firm or corporation, sell, offer or expose for sale, or have in possession with intent to sell as and for oxide of zinc in oil, or zinc oxide in oil, or zinc white in oil, any product other than commercially pure oxide of zinc ground in pure linseed oil; nor shall any person by himself, his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of any other person, or as the servant or agent of any firm or corporation, sell, offer or expose for sale, or have in possession with intent to sell any oxide of zinc ground in linseed oil, unless each keg, can or other receptacle, containing the same has distinctly and durably painted, stamped, stenciled or marked thereon the words "oxide of zinc in oil," or "zinc oxide in oil," or "zinc white in oil," and the name and address of the manufacturer or jobber thereof.

5. Nor shall any person by himself, his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of any other person, or as the servant o agent of any firm or corporation, sell, offer or expose for sale, or have in possession with intent to sell as and for turpentine, spirit of turpentine or oil of turpentine, any article except pure oil of turpentine distilled from the natural gum, dip or scrape of pine trees, and unmixed with kerosene or other mineral oil or other foreign substance; nor shall any person by himself, his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of any other person, or as the servant or agent of any firm or corporation, sell, offer or expose for sale or have in possession with intent to sell as and for wood turpentine or wood spirit of turpentine any article except the distillates and spirits prepared directly from or by the distillation of the wood of pine trees, and unmixed with kerosene or other mineral o'l or other foreign substance; nor shall any person by himself, his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of any other person, or as the servant or agent of any firm or corporation, sell, offer or expose for sale, or have in possession with intent to sell any oil of turpentine or wood spirit of turpentine unless it is so done under its true name, and each tank car, tank, barrel, keg, can or vessel of such oil has distinctly and durably painted, stamped, stenciled or marked thereon the true name of such oil in ordinary bold faced capital letters, not less than five-line pica in size the words "Oil of Turpentine" or

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