Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-12-14
Iowa Dairy LAWS.

dairy laws of any state in the Union,
and that they are reasonably well en-
forced. These will probably serve as
copies for laws to be enacted in other
states. Hence we publish, for the con-
sideration Of our readers, such parts as
are of greatest interest:
CHAPTER so, LAWS TwENTY-FOURTH
GENERAL AssEMBLY.-SECTIoN 1. I'm
pure milk-penalty for violation.-lf
any person shall sell or exchange, or
expose for sale or exchange, deliver or
bring to another for domestic use, or
to be converted into any product OF hui
man food whatsoever, any unclean, i'm
pure, unhealthy, adulterated, unwhole-
some or SKINNED milk, or milk from
which has been held back what is COM
monty known as strippings, or milk
taken from an animal having disease,
sickness, ulcers, assesses or running
sore, or was taken from an animal If
teen days before, or less than five days
after psrturition, shall upon conviction
thereof be fined not less than twenty
five dollars ($25. 00) nor more than one
hundred dollars ($10o. 00), and be liable
in double the amount of damages to
the person or persons upon whom such
fraud shall be committed. Provided
that the provisions Of this act shall not
apply to skimmed milk where 1t is sold
V,such.
tEc. 2. Skinned milk defned.-For
hi purposes of this act milk which is
,roved by any reliable method Of test
Or analysis, to contain less than three
pounds Of butter fat to the one hundred
pounds of milk, shall be regarded as
SKINNED or partially SKINNED milk.
SEC. 3. Enforcement.-It is hereby
s'made the duty of the dairy commits
d siouer to enforce the provisions of the
4 foregoing sections.
Sec. 2. Milk dealers permit; penalty
t for violation.-Every milk dealer who
or runs q milk wagon, milk depot or sells
milk from a store, in the cities that
plhave over ten thousand inhabitants, in
vfthe state of Iowa, shall obtain a permit
:: from the state dairy commissioners Of
lnfce for which he will pay the sum Of
gone dollar (S1. 00) annually. The COM
whatsoever shall keep book in which
shall be registered the name, location
v and number Of each dealer in milk, and
v1a record of each analysis. Whoever
violates the provisions Of this section,
ntupon conviction thereof, shall be fined
q not less than ten dollars $1,000 nor
more than twenty-five dollars (S25.0o.)
SEC. 8. Power to take and inspect
The dairy commissioner or his agents
shall have power and authority to open
any can or vessel containing milk
which is offered for sale, and may in
spect the contents thereof and may
take therefrom samples of milk for
analysis
CHAPTER 45.-SECTIoN l. Hotels, eat
ing houses, placard, penalty for viola
tion.-That section six 10y Of chapter
ffty.two (52) Of the laws of the Twenty
first general assembly be and the same
is hereby repealed and the following
enacted in lieu thereof:
mo keeper of hotel, boarding
house, restaurant or other public place
of entertainment shall place before any
patron for use as food, any imitation
keeper shall have posted in q conspicu-
GUS place in the room opposite each
table or lunch counter, where such
imitation butter or imitation cheese is
used plain white placard, in size not
less than ten Q0) by fourteen Q4)
inches, containing the words, ''Oleo-
margarine used here" Limitation
cheese used here" or Limitation but
ter used here" las the case may be),
printed in English with black ink in
plain Roman type and in letters not
less in size than one inch in length
and one half inch in width, and the
said placard shall not contain any
other words than the ones above pre-
scribed. Any person or persons violat-
ing the provisions of this act shall,
upon conviction thereof, be punished
by a fine OF not less than twenty five
(s25) dollars nor over one hundred
(s1OO) dollars, or by imprisonment in
the county Jail for not over thirty
days.
CHAPTER 46.-SEcrIoN 2. Defining
imitation butter and cheese.-That for
the purpose of this act every article,
substitute or compound, other than
that produced from pure milk, or
cream from the same, made in the
scmblance of butter and designed TO
be used as substitute for butter made
from pure milk, or cream from the
same, is hereby declared to be imita-
ton butter; and that for the purpose
of this act, every article, substance or
compound other than that produced
from pure milk, or cream from the
same, made in the semblance of cheese
and designed to be used as substitute
for cheese made from pure milk, or
cream from the same, is hereby de-
clared to be imitation cheese; provided,
that the use Of salt, rennet and harm
less coloring matter for coloring the
product of pure milk or cream shall
not be construed to render such prod
uct an imitation.
SEC. 3. Prohibiting the coloring yell
low of substitutes for butter or cheese.