The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-03-03
THE PURE BUTTER BILL.
Passed by the House and sure OF Sue
cess I'm the senate.

cess I'm the senate.
Olympia. March 2-SpeciaL-The unani-
nous passage by the house OF the pure
butter and milk bill. which came Jointly
from the agricultural committee of the
senat and agricultural college commit
tee of the house, is victory for the but
ter makers OF the state The bin will pass
the senate just as readily as the members
of the upper house recognize the import
ance of the growing dairy interests OF the
state and the necessity to protect and
| foster the same In the interests of The
general people. The bin provides that IL
shall be unlawful for any person to sell.
| offer for sale. furnish or deliver TO any
creamery. cheese factory. corporation
| person or persons whatsoever. as pure,
| wholesome and tinskimmed, any nnmer-
| charitable. adulterated, skinned impure
or unwholesome milk. II II be proven
that milk sold or offered for sale or fur
nished or delivered. or had In possession
with intent To SELL contain less than per
centum of pure butter fat when subjected
to chemical analysis. or that II had been
diluted or any part of Its cream abb
stracted. or that IL. or any part of 1t, WAS
drawn from cows known by the person
complained Of to have been within fifteen
days before or four days after parturitlon
or to have any disease. the milk shall be
held and adIudged 10 have been unmer-
charitable. adulterated. impure or I'M
wholesome. as the ease may be. and IL IL
shall appear that cows kept for the pro-
duetion of milk or cream from the same.
for market. or for sale or exchange. or
for manufacturing their milk into articles
of food. are kept In a crowded or un-
hcalthful condition. or are being fed on
distillery waste. or upon any substance in
a state OF qualification. or of an unheaith-
full nature. the milk or the cream from
the same Is declared impure and unwhoie-
some.
Every person who shall at any factory
I'm the state manufacture cheese shall
stamp in a distinct and durable manner
on each and every cheese, whether ched-
dar. twin. fiat, or young America. or by
whatever name or style known, before the
sale thereof. In full faced capital letters
not less than one inch high. included
within plain. heavy border. In ordinary
stamping Ink. either red. green. purple or
violet In color. and OF such composition as
not 10 be easily removed or wholly oblit-
Grated BY moisture, the grade OF the same
in the following named letters and words:
washington full cream" skinned or
half SKINNED as tho case may be- to-
gether with the name of the factory and
the name OF the city. town or village
where the said factory is located: and
such cheese only as shall have been man
ufacturcd from pure and wholesome milk.
and from which no portion OF the butter
fat shall have been removed by akimnaing
or by other process. ard In the manufac-
sure OF which neither butter nor any sub
stance for butter. or other animal or
vegetable fats or oils have been used or
any fat which has been extracted from
milk In any form and returned for the
purpose OF flllng the said cheese. shall he
stamped Washington full cream and
such cheese only as shall be made from
pure milk having not less than one-half
OF the cream thereof extracted. leavi;>s- Z.
said cheese not hess than Is per centam OF
pare butter fat. shall he marked half
skinned and such cheese only as shall
be made from pure skinned milk shall
be marked skinned" provided. that
nothing In this section shall be construed
10 apply 10 edam. hriekstein. pineapple.
hamburger, Swiss. or hand made cheese.
or other cheese. by whatever name or
style known. not made by ordinary ched-
dar process.
The bill requires manufacturers OF
cheese or dairy keepers to~keep n CON-
p,ete record for public inspection OF pur-
chasss and safes. and send monthly re-
rort TO the state hoard Of dairy commits
stcners A person with twenty or more
cows and who shall manufacture the milk
from The same shall he adjuig@i the
keeper Of a private dairy.
The public at large who eat away from
ho,ne are protected in this wise:
s.No person, by himself his agents or
nts servants. shall render or manufac-
,urs sell. ofssr for sale. expose FOR sale
or have i'm his possession with intent 10
sell or serve to patrons, guests. board
ers or inmates fn any hotel, eating house.
restaurant. public conveyance or board
Ing honse, 81 public or private HOSPITAL,
asy,tva. school. or eisegnosynsry. or penal
institution. any article. product or con-
rsaund made wholly or partly out Of any
fas. oil or oleagtnoms or compound there
~ nat produced directly and wholly az
,hA .t.as OF manufacture from uTsaful'es-
a,es milk. or the cream from the same.
xxs,h ar without harmless coiortng mat
,ar which shall Re IN imitation OK yellow
h,,,tar rrofuced frem pure. Gnaaasteratsd
,.stk az the cream from the same; Pro-
v,,,esf. that nothing IN This act shall ~
construed 10 rrolsihlt the manufacture or
..ta AZ a,eosnargArfns In a separate ard
ss,x.,,ss form. aas in such manner as WIZ
advise the consumer Of its real character.