Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-11-04
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
Flow Successful Farmers Operate This
Department of the Farm--A Few
Hints "a to the Care of Live stock
and Poultry.


Enforcing the htchigan OieO. Law.
The Dairy and Food Commissioner
in report says: The law as it now
stands on our statute book provides:
THAT no person. by himself or his
agents or servants. shall render or
manufacture, sell, offer for sale, expose
for sale, or have in his possession with
intent to sell, any article, product or
compound made wholly or in part out
of any fat, oil or oleaginous substance
or compound thereof, not produced
from adulterated milk or cream from
the same which shall be in imitation
of yellow butter produced from pure
unadulterated milk or cream from the
same: Provided, that nothing in this
act shall be construed to prohibit the
manufacture or sale of oleomargarine
in a separate and distinct form, and in
such manner as will advise the con-
sumer of its real character, free from
celebration or ingredient that causes it
to look like butter"
The statute does not prohibit the
manufacture or sale of all oleomargar-
inc, but only such as is colored in inn
itation of yellow butter, produced from
pure unadulterated milk or cream from
the same. If free from celebration or
ingredient that causes it to look like
butter" the right to sell it ''in sep
arate and distinct form and in such
manner as will advise the consumer
of its real character" is neither re-
stricted or prohibited. The statute
simply seeks to suppress false pre-.
lenses and to promote fair dealing in
the sale of an article of food. COM
polling the sale of olemargarine for
what it really is and preventing the
sale for what IL is not. We believe
that the state, in the exercise of its
police powers, may protect the public
against the deception and fraud that
would be involved in the sale within
its limits for purposes of food OF
compound that had been so prepared
as to make it appear to be what it was
not.
AS has been held by the United
States supreme court, IF there be any
subject over which it would seem the
states ought to have plenary control,
and the power to legislate in respect
to which, it ought not to be supposed,
was intended to be surrendered to the
general government, it is the protec-
ton of the people against fraud and
deception in the sale of food products.
Under the policy of the department in
the administration of the dairy and
food laws, as sustained by our supreme
court, every dealer is held strictly re-
sponsible for the character of the
goods he sells, without regard TO
whether he knows them to be adul-
terated or not, and guarantee OF
purity received from the manufacturer
or jobber win not relieve him from
that liability Until a court of COM
petent jurisdiction declares the anti
color oleomargarine statute unccnsti-
tutional we shall strictly adhere to the
above rule in our efforts to accomplish |
the results intended by its enactment. |
In the administration of the affairs of
the department, we do not believe it
our province to ignore any law on the
statute books with the enforcement
of which we are charged. and in pur-
suing the policy above set forth we
adopt the only course open for the |
proper conduct of the duties OF the |
office.