Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-08-18
ADULTERATEO BUTTER
Most Farm-rs Violating the
Law on the Sale of
Butter.
NOT MORE THAN SIXTEEN PER
CENT OF SALT OR MOISTURE
MAY BE ADDED
Dealer Also Runs a Risk When Selling
Butter With Too Much Water
or Salt.
SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE LAW

The Russell Grocery company. of
Pine Bluff have furnished the Graph
ic with some very interesting printed
matter on butter adulteration, showing
just what is required OF persons in
preparing butter for sale.
There are few farmer who are
not violating the law as to adulterated
butter every time they place butter
on the market and the grocer also
violates the law when he sells most
butter he buys from the farmer.
1t will pay the farmers to study this
law for the reason that any butter
butter of over sixteen per cent. OF
moisture is adulterated and comes un-
der the new law. Such butter is sub
Jec to tax of en- cents per pound and,
when found by government officials
may be cOnfiscated by them A cam
paign of education among farmers,
merchants and dealers should at once
be started. SO that excessive moisture
or salt in butter may be avoided Tn
der present conditions it is dangerous
to handle dairy butter. and this fact
must be brought right home to the
farmer for the reason that sooner or
later butter containing an excessive
amount of moisture will lead the mer-
chant the dealer and perhaps the far
mer, into trouble.
The following are extracts from the
law approved May 9. 1902:
Sec. 4. 'Adulterated butter is defn-
ed to mean a grade of butter produced
by mixing, reWorking. rechurning in
rnilk or cream, refining. or in any way
producing a uniform. purified or i'm
proved product from different lots or
parcels of melted or unmelted butter
fat, in which any acld. alkali. chemical
or any substance whatever is introduce
ed or used for the purpose or with the
effect of deodorizing Or removing
therefrom rancidity. Or any butter or
ia with which there is mixed any sub
stance foreign to butter as herein de-
fined. with intent or effect cheapening
i'll cost of the product. or any butter
In the manipulation of which any pro-
cess or material is used with intent or
effect of causing the absorption of alb
normal quantities of milk. water Or
cream.
Manufacturers of adulterated but
ter shall pay six hundred dollars per
year.
Wholesale dealers in adulterated
butter shall pay tax of four hundred
and eighty dollars per annum, and re-
tail dealers in adulterated butter shall
pay tax of forty eight dollars per an
mum. Every person who sells adult
Grated butter in less quantities than
ten pounds shall be regarded as re-
tail dealer in a'!y'terated butter
THAT upon sj,!lterated butter, when
manufactured Or sold or removed for
consumption or use, there shah be as
sessed and .Ciected a tax of ten cents
per pound, to be paid by the manufac-
.furer thereof. and any fractional part
of a pound shall be taxed as a pound.
THAT every person who carries on
the business OF manufacturer of
process or renovated butter or adulter-
atel butter, without having paid the
special tax le G red by law. shall, be-
sides being liable to the payment of
the tax. shall he fined one thousand
and not more than five thousand dol
dollars, ard oyerw person who carria
Oh the business Of dealer in adultc"-
ated butter without having paid the