for any adulteration of food products or articles to be used as food, unless the purchaser is notified of the adulteration by proper labels on the unbroken package and proper information when the goods are sold in bulk or at retail. The act also prohibits the use as adulterants of any materials injurious to health.

KENTUCKY.

The sale of unstamped packages of imitation butter is punishable by a fine of from $20 to $1,000, unless each purchaser is clearly Lotified by proper labels, as to the true character of the material sold or offered for sale. (See laws of 1893, chapter 182.)

The sale of adulterated or impure milk is prohibited by a fine, and its sale to creameries for the manufacture of butter or cheese is forbidden under penalties. Chapter 182 of the act of 1893, fixes the penalty for any violation of the law at not less than $25 nor more than $100.

All packages of vinegar must be distinctly marked with the process of manufacture and the material from which it is made, and any violation renders the seller liable to a fine of from $25 to $100 for each offense. (Revised statutes, No. 1282.)

LOUISIANA.

Act of July 8th, 1886:

Section 1. Prohibits the sale of such substances as "oleomargarine, butterine, bogus butter or other material either separately or combined with any substance other than the product of the cow."

Section 2. Imposes a fine or imprisonment, or both, upon all who violate the provisions of Section 1.

Act of July 5th, 1882:

Section 1. Prohibits the adulteration of foods or drugs, and im poses a penalty of $50 for the first offense and $100 for each subsequent offense.

Section 2. Defines the meaning of the word "adulterated" when applied to food or drugs.

Section 3. Forbids the sale of "drugs, and groceries, such as sugar, coffee, tea, butter, cheese, &c.," unless the package from which they are sold is plainly marked so as to show their true character, and imposes a fine of $50 for the first offense, and $100 for each subsequent violation of the law.

Section 4. Provides that any one who shall knowingly sell or offer

for sale any articles which are not what they purport to be, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding $100.

Section 5. Empowers the State Board of Health to select samples, make analyses and prosecute offenders.

Section 6. Makes it the duty of all manufacturers and dealers to furnish samples to agents of the State Board of Health, on demand in the proper manner.

MAINE.

Section 3. Forbids the sale of oleomargarine, butterine or imitation butter or cheese of any kind, and imposes a fine of from $100 to $200 for each offense, and makes it the duty of all milk inspectors, deputy sheriffs and constables to institute complaint against offenders against any of the provisions of the act.

Section 5. Empowers all inspectors of milk, sheriffs, deputy sheriffs and constables to obtain samples of suspected imitation butter, and have analysis made, the cost of which is, in cases of conviction, to be added to the costs of the case.

Section 6. Defines the terms "butter" and "cheese" to mean "the products usually known by those names, and which are manufactured exclusively from milk or cream, or both, with salt and rennet, and with or without coloring matter."

Section 44, of chapter 255. Empowers the municipal officers in towns of not less than 3,000 inhabitants to appoint milk inspectors. Section 47, of chapter 38. Fixes the standard of pure milk at 88 per cent. of water, twelve per cent. of solids, of which not less than 3 per cent. shall be fat.

Section 47. Forbids the sale of the milk from diseased cows or that from which any portion of the cream has been taken, and fixes a penalty of $20 for the first offense and $50 for each subsequent offense.

MASSACHUSETTS.

Act of 1894:

Section 1. Forbids the sale of oleomargarine as butter or if made in imitation of butter either with or without coloring matter of any kind.

Section 2. Forbids the sale of oleomargarine without all the marks and labels required by law, or in any package, tub or parcel, without the word "oleomargarine" in gothic letters not less than one inch long, stamped on it, and imposes a fine of one hundred dollars for each offense.

Section 3. All dealers in oleomargarine, in addition to a compliance with previous sections of the law, must display in their places of business signs with letters not less than four inches in length, containing the words "oleomargarine sold here," or "butterine sold here." under a penalty of one hundred dollars.

Section 4. Compels vendors of oleomargarine to place signs on all wagons in gothic letters not less than three inches in length, with the words "licensed to sell oleomargarine," and imposes a penalty of not less than fifty dollars or not less than thirty days' imprisonment. Section 5. Forbids the use of oleomargarine in any hotel, restaurant, boarding house or lunch counter, as a substitute for butter, unless all patrons are notified of the fact, and imposes a penalty of not less than fifty dollars.

MARYLAND.

Chapter 255, of the laws of 1886, forbids the sale of oleomargarine or imitation butter, except in packages properly marked according to the provisions of the section, and if conviction follows, the article is confiscated by the State officers.

Chapter 604, of the laws of 1890, make it obligatory that, in addition to the usual branding or marking, the purchaser shall be informed, in the case of butter and cheese, of the proportion to which the adulterant has been used in compounding the mixture.

All adulteration of vinegar is forbidden by chapter 604, of the law of 1890, and all violations are punished by a fine or imprisonment, and the adulterated goods confiscated for the benefit of the State treasury.

Chapter 604, of the act of 1890, forbids the adulteration of all kinds of food materials unless the adulteration and its extent be in some way made known to the purchaser at the time of the sale; the marking of all packages of reduced or adulterated food materials is made obligatory.

MICHIGAN.

Section 13. Prohibits the manufacture and sale of adulterated foods or drinks of any kind.

Section 14. Defines the meaning of the word "food" to be anything "intended to be eaten or drank by man, whether simple or compound."

Section 15. Strictly defines what shall constitute "adulteration" within the meaning of the act.

Section 16. Prohibits the offering or selling as butter, any mixture not the legitimate product of the dairy, and imposes a penalty of from $50 to $500 and costs, or imprisonment for not more than ninety days for a violation of the provisions of the section.

Section 17. Prohibits the offering or sale of imitation cheese, or of cheese not the legitimate product of the dairy, and imposes the same penalty for violations as the preceding section.

Section 18. Prohibits the use of the brand "full cream cheese,” if any of the cream has been taken from the milk.

Section 19. Authorizes the Dairy Commissioner to provide for cheese factories brands with the words, "Michigan full cream cheese," and makes it the duty of the manufacturer to place the brand upon the cheese and upon the outside of the box in which it is packed. It also authorizes the commissioner to receive a fee of one dollar for each registration of a factory.

Section 20. Prohibits the selling or exposing for sale of falsely branded cheese packages.

Section 21. Prohibits the sale as "lard" of any substance not made exclusively from the fat of the pig.

Section 22. Provides that all packages of mixtures sold as substitutes for lard must be branded "adulterated lard," "lard compound," or "lard substitute." The letters in such labels must not be less than one inch long, and must be accompanied with the name of the maker, the factory and its location.

Section 23. Makes it the duty of those selling lard to affix to each package, in a prominent manner, the words required by Section 22d. Section 24. Makes it prima-facie evidence of guilt to have adulterated lard in possession, or lard which is not branded according to law.

Section 25. Prohibits the sale of any fruit jelly, fruit butter or similar compound composed wholly or in part of glucose, or colored in imitation of fruit jellies, or containing anything injurious to health. If the compound is a mixture and does not contain any injurious materials, it must be plainly marked, "imitation fruit jelly or butter." A violation of the law is followed by a penalty of from $50 to $500 and imprisonment.

Section 26. Provides that all packages of canned goods shall bear a label showing by whom and where they were put up, and if bleached or soaked materials have been used, all cans must be branded "soaked or bleached goods."

Section 27. Prohibits the sale of imitation coffee unless the package is marked "coffee compound," with the name and address of the manufacturer.

Section 28. Prohibits the use of any deleterious materials in malt or brewed liquors.

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Section 29. Provides that for the purposes of conviction under the act, orders for future delivery shall be deemed as violations.

Section 30. Punishes false labeling by a penalty of from $100 to $1,000, or imprisonment for from six months to three years.

Section 31. Provides a penalty of from $100 to $500, and imprisonment, for violations not otherwise provided for.

Section 32. Makes it the duty of the food commissioner to bring all violators of any section of the food laws to justice, and gives him power to appoint and commission inspectors, and makes it the duty of the township health officers to co-operate with the commissioner in carrying out the provisions of all pure food laws.

Section 33. Repeals all acts inconsistent with the act quoted from. Section 34. Provides a punishment for, and forbids the sale of any diseased or unwholesome provisions, whether for meat or drink without first making the fact known to the buyer, and provides a penalty for a violation of the section.

Section 36. Imposes a penalty of a fine not exceeding $400 or imprisonment of not more than one year for all adulterations of drugs so as to make them injurious to health.

Section 37. Provides a penalty in cases where any physician who when in a state of intoxication, prescribes any drug or medicine to another person, and fixes a penalty for violations.

Section 38. Imposes a penalty upon any apothecary or druggist who fails to affix the word "poison" to all vessels containing poison, and also for not affixing the best and most simple remedy to such vessels or packages.

Section 39. Forbids the coloring, staining or mixing of any article of food or drink with articles injurious to health.

Section 40. Provides that no person shall, under a penalty named in another section, mix, color or stain any drug or medicine so that its potency or quality is injuriously affected.

Section 41. Prohibits the mixing, coloring or staining of any article of food, drink or medicine, unless the purchaser, at the time of sale, is fully informed of the fact of the mixing, coloring or staining.

Section 42. Prohibits the mixing of grape sugar, oleomargarine, suine, beef fat, lard or any other foreign substance with any article of food or drink, unless the purchaser is informed of the mixture at the time of purchase.

Section 51. Provides a penalty for adulterating milk, and prescribes the meaning of the word "adulterated" as used in the act. It forbids the sale of milk from which any of the cream has been taken, or from which the strippings have been withheld.

Section 52-Act of 1889. Prohibits the sale of adulterated or swill milk or from cows fed on garbage or food in a state of fermentation,