Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-24
Public Must Know Where Imita-
tion Butter ie Used
ol1UMWA MAN WANTS TO KNOW LAW
Extract From the Code Regarding the
Sale and Transportation of Oleo.
notwithstanding Must
be Plainly Marked.

dairy products told a courier reporter
today that he saw six frkins of what
he was satisfied was oleomargarine at
one of the Ottumwa depots the other
day and it was intended for use in the
railway camp near Batavia. The
aforesaid Ottumwa citizen said that it
was contrary to the statutes in such
cases made and provided and desired
that the Courier inform the people as
to the law.
Imitation Butter or Cheese.
Under this head, being section 2516
of the code, the statute says:
Every article, substitute or COM
pound save that produced from pure
milk or cream or milk from cows made
in the semblance of or designed to be
used for and in the place of butter is
imitation butter" (The same is said
of cheese.) mo one shall manufac-
ture, have in his possession, offer to
sell or sell, solicit or take orders for
delivery, ship, consign or forward by
any common carrier, public or private,
and no common carrier shall knowing
ly receive or transport any such imi-
tation butter or cheese, except in the
manner and subject to the regulations
of this chapter
Regulations as to Sale.
"a substitute for butter and cheese
not having yellow color nor colored
in imitation of butter and cheese, as
prohibited in the next section, may be
manufactured, kept in possession, Of
Tered for sale, sold, shipped, consigned
or forwarded by common carriers,pub-
lie or private, if each tub, frkin, box
or other package in which the same is
kept, offered for sale. sold, shipped,
consigned or forwarded. shall have
branded, stamped or marked on the
side or top thereof in the English Ian
guage, in durable manner, the words,
Substitute for butter or substitute
for cheese as the case may be, the let
tiers of the words to be not less than
one inch in length by one-half inch in
width. Such substitute for
butter or cheese may be kept, used or
served as a food or for cooking in ho-
tells restaurants, boarding houses or
other places of public entertainment,
only in case the proprietor or person in
charge of such place shall display and
keep constantly posted a card oppo-
site eacn table or other places where
the guests or others are served with
the same, which card shall be
at least ten by fourteen inches in size,
the words. Substitute for butter used
here or Substitute for cheese used
here as the case may be, printed in
black Roman letters of the same size
as herein required to be placed upon
the tubs, firl<ins, boxes or other pack
ages in which substitutes for butter or
cheese are kept, and no other words
or figures shall be printed thereon.
No substitute for butter shall be offer
ed for sale in the manufacturers orig
lnal package under the name of or
for true butter or cheese made from
the milk or cream of cows, nor shall
any substitute for butter or cheese be
offered for sale or sold unless the pur-
chaser at the time was. informed there
of. and, in addition, furnished with a
printed statement in the English Ian
guage in prominent type that the sub
stance sold is such substitute and Civ
ing the name and place of business of
the maker.
Package Branded.
mo one shall have in his possession
OF under his control except for the
| actual consumption of himself and
family any substance designed as a
substitute for butter or cheese, unless
the tub, hrkin, box or package hold
ing the same is branded or marked as
in this chapter required. Any persons
having IN his possession or under his
control such substance not so branded
or marked Shall be presumed to know
it's true character and name.
Search Warrant Samples.
whatsoever shall have in possession
or in control any imitation butter or
cheese or any substance designed to
be used as substitute for butter or
| cheese, contrary to the provisions of
TINS chapter shall be held to have pos
session of property with intent to use
1T as means of committing a public
otfense, and all the provisions of the
chapter relating to search warrants
and proceedings thereon shall apply.
except that the officer serving the war
rant in addition to his duties as there
in required shall deliver to the dairy
commissioner or to person author
lzed by him i'll writing to receive the
same, perfect sample of each article
seized by virtue of such warrant, for
the purpose of having the same ana
lyzed and forthwith returned to the
person from whom it was taken the
reminder of such articles seized"
From this it will be seen that no
one, unless he or his family consumes
the imitation butter, may have it in
his possession without it being patent
to everybody just what it is. The
packages seen by the man who gave
the Courier reporter the information
may have been properly labeled and
marked, in which event it was lawful
to ship it to its destination. When it
arrives at that point, however, the reg
ulatlons regarding its use are plain
and violation will cause visit of
the state dairy commissioner.
In this connection the gentleman
SB,anaIv I;