The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-28
The Dairymen's Associa-
ton to Present Sew
eral Bills.
Amendments Wanted to the
Present Constitution of the
Bureau.
One Bill Aims to Make an Existing
Statute Clearer. Another Applies
TO Cheesemaking.

At the next session of the State Legis-
lature there will be introduced measure
looking toward the establishment OF
State Dairy Bureau that shall have Tor lis
object the prevention of adulteration OF
dairy products and the painting on on
purchasers of goods of an inferior quailty
for that OF the first class.
This measure is being agitated by the
Dairymen's Association and William
Vanderbilt, its secretary. From points
furnished, John II. Dickinson, Senator
elect, has prepared bills which are to be
presented during the session.
One OF these Is to amend the Act OF
March 9, 1895, 'to prevent deception in
the manufacture and sale of butter and
cheese, 10 secure its enforcement and TO
appropriate money therefor" The amend
ment, which is to the latter part of section
3 is as follows, and is intended TO make
the law clearer:
Provided that nothing in this section shall
be construed to prohibit the manufacture or
sale, under the regulations hereinafter pro-
vided of substance or compounds designed 10
be used as the Imitation, or as the substitute
for butter or cheese made from pure milk or
cream from the same in separate and distinct
form, and in such manner as viii advise the
consumer CT its real character, free from coi-
Grafton ingredients, that causes II TO look
like butter or cheese made from pure milk or
cream, the product OF the dairy.
Section Is of the act is amended 10 read:
The Governor shall on or before the 1st day
OF July 1897, appoint three resident citizens
of this State who shall have practical ex-
perience in the manufacture OF dairy produces
| TO constitute State Dairy Bureau, and Whlcn
shall succeed the one now in existence III
every respect, one OF whom, TO be designated
by the Governor, shall serve Tor two years
from July L, 1897; one, TO be likewise desig-
Inn tod Ch q scr We l..
1897, and the other for six years from July l,
1897. The Governor shall appoint the sue
cesSors 10 said first aDpointees and I'LL any
vacancy occurring; $1,000 is appropriated Tor
each fiscal year hereinafter, and commencing
with the forty-nlnth fiscal year.
Another bill that has been prepared re-
| lates to the defining of the several grades
of cheese manufactured IN this State. 1t
| is as follows:
The people of the State of California repre-
Sent ted in Senate and Assembly DO ordain SIS
| follows:
Section 1. Every person or persons, firms or
corporations who shall at any creamery,
cheese factory or private dairy manufacture
cheese in the State of California, SHAH at the
place of manufacture brand dis tinctly and
durably the bandage of each and every
cheese manufactured and upon the package or
box when shipped the grade OF the cheese
manufactured as follows: California full
cream cheese" California half-sk1m cheese"
California skim cheese"
Sec. 2. All brands Tor branding the different
grdQeS Oh cheese small De procured from the
Stale Dairy Bureau and said bureau is hereby
authorized and directed to issue to all persons,
firms corporations, upon application there
for, uniform branas consecutiyely numbered
of the different grades OF cheese specified in
section 1 OF this act. The State Dairy Bureau
shall keep record of esch and every brand
issued and the name and location of the manu-
facturer receiving the same. No manufac-
turer OF cheese in the State of California other
than those 10 whom such brand is issued
shall use the same, and in case of q change OF
location the party shall notify the bureau OF
such change.
Sec. 8. The different grades OF cheese are
hereby legally defined and established as fol-
lows: Such cheese only as snail have been
manufactured from pure milk and from
which no portion OF the butter fat has been
removed by skimming or other process, and
have not less than 80 per cent OF butter lat,
shall be branded "California cream cheese
and such cheese only as shall be made from
pure milk and having not less than 10 per
cent of butter tat shall be branded California
haIf-skim cheese aud and such cheese only
as shall be made from pure skim milk shall
be branded '.California skim cheese" pro-
yided that nothing in this section shall be
construed TO apply to Edam, Brickstein,
pineapple, Limburger, Swiss or handmade
cheese not made by the ordinary cheddsr pro-
cess.
Sec. 4. No person or persons, firms or cor
manufactured in the State OF California not
branded By an official brand and OF the grade
defined IN section of this act.
Section declares a violation of the law
a misdemeanor and prescribes the penalty.