Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-31
ALL MILK BOTTLES
 MUST BE MARKED
So Dairy and Food Commissioner H.
 F. Potter Has Ruled.

Unrest has sprung up in the last few days among milk producers and distributors. particularly among the latter, says the Hartford Courant, ow- ing to the construction placed by Dairy and Food Commissioner H. F. Potter on one of the laws passed by the last legislature. The act as approved is entitled An act concerning the sale of food in package form" and the first section says. Any person who shall sell or offer for sale food in package form, unless the net quantity of the contents be plainly and conspicuously marked on the outside of the pack age In terms of weight, measure or nu- merical count; provided that reason able variations shall be permitted and that allowances shall be established by the rules and regulations made from time to time by the dairy and ,, food commissioner and the director Of the Connecticut Agricultural Experi- ment Station, shall be subject to the penalties provided in chapter 255 of the public acts of 1907.' The penalty indicated in the chapter is not less than $0 nor more than $500 for the first offense, and for each subsequent o.ffense the offender may be fined not less than $50 and not more than $500. The act has got little or no atten- tionN, until few days ago, when f Ee- veloped that Commissioner Potter had prepared a little book on the subject and had construed the act as including milk, beer and malt liquors generally Tie law determined that it's enforce ment should Begin at the expiration of IS months froS1 it's passage, which would be Jan. 10 1SS2.
 \l,N .e-4- the law and the fact that its enforce ment is to begin promptly on~the date named has caused hubbub af}~ over the state. The number of milk bottles used in this Ncity alone in the distri- button of milk is estimated to be be- tween 35,000 and 10000, so it is read | fly seen that the number used in the state will run up into the millions. The number having the containing quantity l blown in them is, hardly worth men | tioning. The rigid rules as to cleaning the bottle make it practi- | cally impossible to label them in any needs be renewed each day or two, if not each day. It will readily be seen | that the greater part of the bottles must be thrown aside if the commits | sioners construction is sustained by the courts. Whether the commission CT gets his queue from section of the act of 1907 has not developed The closing sentence of that act reads
 The term food as used herein shall include all articles whether simple, mixed or compound, used for food, drink, confectionery or condiment of man or animals"
 The book says a quart of beer shall l, weigh 31 ounces, while milk must tip l the scales at 31 or S2 Liquor men seem pleased as well as amused that booze" has finally been elevated to the food product class. They are not. 1 however. disturbed by the law since they have found an easy way out, in
 having their labels read "The con- tents of this bottle 10 cents" or what ever the price might be, without ref erence to the quantity.
 Law All Right.
 The general impression among the milk dealers Monday was that the law itself is entirely proper, their only objection being the enforcement of it on January 1.
 Mir. Gilmore of Waterbury said 1t