Connecticut.

The General Assembly of Connecticut has not yet adjourned, from present indications, will probably do so about the first of August. There are some amendments still pending in relation to the food and drug law.

A bill causing print butter to have the net weight stamped on the wrapper has passed the House and will probably in a few days pass the Senate.

Also a bill causing dealers to label or placard all cold storage or preserved eggs when exhibited for sale. This bill has also passed the House and will probably pass the Senate in a short time.

There are two or three other bills or amendments, which, if they become a law, will quite materially change the food and drug act passed at the last session of the Connecticut Legislature.

A bill is for an act to amend sections 2, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 14, of the present food law of Florida.

Section 11 authorizes the Commissioner of Agriculture and the State Chemist to fix standards of purity for food products. The following amendments have been made to the above bill:

1. In section 7, before the word "sold," insert the words "or if not of a poisonous or deleterious character may be." 2. In section 7, after the words "in the order direct," add the words "which order shall guard against any further violations of this act by such sale or other disposition.

3. In section 11, insert the word "States" after the worn "United."

4. In section 11, insert the word "be" after the words "defined to."

This bill has passed the Senate and the House and is now the Law.

By Committee on Public Health. An act relating to the preservation of the public health, prescribing certain duties for the state and local boards of health; providing for the establishment of bacteriological stations, and the appointment of bacteriologists; providing for the appointment of a county physician and the membership of county boards of health: amending Sections 1081, 1091, 1095. 1098 and 1099 of the political code, revised codes of Idaho; adding to Chapter 1 of Title 8 of the said political code, two sections to be known as sections 1097A and 1097B; repealing Sections 1109, 1110, 1111, 1112 and 1113 comprising Chapter 2 of Title 8 of said political code and declaring an emergency.

HOUSE BILL NO. 172.

By Committee on Public Health. An act to amend Chapter 3 of Title 8 of the political code, revised codes of Idaho, relating to dairy, food and oil inspection, so as to abolish the Board of Dairy, Food and Oil Commissioners and transfer the duties imposed on said Board to the State Board of Health; to abolish the office of Dairy, Food and Oil Commissioner and to substitute therefor the office of Dairy, Food and Sanitary Inspector; providing for the appointment and prescribing the duties of a State Chemist; and specifically amending Sections 1114, 1115, 1116, 1118, 1119, 1121, 1122, 1123, 1133, 1145, 1146, 1147, 1149, 1150 and 1152, and repealing Sections 1117. 1120 and 1148 of said Chapter 3, Title 8 of the political code of the revised codes of Idaho; so as to accomplish the purposes above specified, and declaring an emergency.

Illinois.

The legislature of Illinois adjourned Friday, June 4, 1909, as predicted in the May issue of THE AMERICAN FOOD JOURNAL. No new food, drug, dairy, sanitary or net weight legislation was passed at this session of the legislature with the exception of an amendment to the Illinois Food Law of 1907, with reference to the standards on condensed and evaporated milk. This bill was known as S. B. No. 442, and amends the present Illinois Food Law, by striking out the standards on condensed and evaporated milk, leaving no standards on these articles.

Another matter of great interest to the dairy industry of Illinois was the passing of a resolution known as House Joint Resolution No. 20, introduced by Speaker Shurtleff for the appointment of a commission to investigate the milk supply of Illinois, to be reported at the next session of the legislature. The Resolution is printed in another part of this issue in full. The legislature was very liberal to the Illinois Food Commission, as will be shown by the appropriation published in another part of this issue, when compared with the pruning of the University of Illinois, the Factory Inspection, the State Board of Health and other department appropriations.

Indiana.

The Legislature of Indiana has adjourned and passed the following three laws relating to Food Stuffs:

ENGROSSED H. B. 44

This bill passed both houses, and has been signed by the Governor, and has become a law.

HOUSE BILL NO. 308.

By Mr. White.

Referred to Committee on Sanitation.

Is a sanitary regulation and will affect particularly those maintaining establishments for the manufacture of food in Indiana.

This bill has passed both houses and has been signed by the Governor and is now a law, and was printed in the March issue of this journal.

H. B. 345.

Has passed both Houses, signed by the Governor and is now the law of the State.

Iowa.

The Legislature adjourned April 10.

The only new pure food, drug or sanitary legislation adopted Is the following which is a standard for oysters: HOUSE FILE NO. 321.

By Mr. Hanson.

A bill for an act to amend the law as it appears in Section Four Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety-Nine-a Thirty-One (4999-a 31) of the supplement to the code Nineteen Hundred and Seven (1907) relating to food standards.

Be it Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa:

Section 1. That section Four Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety-Nine-a Thirty-one (4999-a 31) be amended by adding thereto the following: "Oysters shall not contain ice, nor more than sixteen and two-thirds (16 2-3) per cent by weight of free liquid."

Kansas.

Legislature adjourned March 10th, and passed the following Pure Food, Drug and Weight and Measure Bills, and were published in The American Food Journal of April.

The Legislature adjourned April 23rd and passed the following new and amended laws relating to Dairy Products, Foods, Drugs and Sanitation:

CHAPTER 353-H. F. No. 1017.

An act regulating the labelling of the products of pasteurized milk and cream.

CHAPTER 428-S. F. No. 231.

An act to amend sections 1735, 1739, 1740, 1741, 1743, 1744 and 1756 of the Revised Laws of 1905, and the several acts amendatory thereof, relating to the dairy and food departCHAPTER 468-H. F. No. 511.

ment.

An act to prevent unlawful discrimination in the sale of milk, cream, butter-fat and to provide a punishment for the

same.

CHAPTER 337-S. F. No. 619.

An act to amend Chapter 455 of the general of the year 1907 entitled "an act to provide for the inspection of canneries, publishing reports of same and establishing a grade for canned fruits and vegetables."

CHAPTER 498-H. F. No. 388.

An act providing for the licensing of operators of testing apparatus and prescribing a penalty for its violation.

Missouri.

The Missouri Legislature has adjourned and passed the following Dairy, Food and Sanitary Laws:

SENATE BILL No. 261.

An act to provide for the appointment of dairy instructors by the State Board of Agriculture and to define their duties. SENATE BILL No. 565.

An act establishing standards for dairy products prohibiting the sale of said products when adulterated, prescribing

penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act and repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict or inconsistent herewith.

HOUSE BILL No. 734.

An act regulating the production, storing and vending of milk and the care and feeding of cows, the sanitation of stables and yards where milch cows are kept, the care and sanitation of vehicles used for the transportation of milk defining what is adulterated and what impure milk and fixing penalties for violations thereof.

HOUSE BILL No. 735.

An act to amend article 5, chapter *7, Revised Statutes of Missouri by adding thereto two new sections to be known as sections 4749a and 4749b and by striking out from section 4754 of such article 5, chapter 67, in the first line thereof the words, "the state board of agriculture" and adding in place thereof, the words, "The State Food Commissioners."

HOUSE BILL No. 751.

An act to create a bureau of dairying, and placing the same under the control of the State Board of Agriculture; to provide the appointment of the chief thereof, and defining his terms of office and his duties and powers; defining what shall be known as public creameries public dairies, butter and cheese factories and milk depots; fixing a standard for milk measures, test tubes, providing penalties for the use of false measures or milk testing machine, adopting United States standards of purity, and definition of dairy products; prohibiting the sale of adulterated or impure milk, and fixing penalties for the same; fixing penalties for interfering or obstructing the commissioner in the performance of his duties and repealing all conflicting acts or parts of acts.

HOUSE BILL NO. 486.
By Mr. Smith.

Committee on Miscellaneous Subjects.

"This bill, as finally amended and passed, is as follows: Amendment to section 9825 of Cobbey's annotated statutes for 1907 relating to branding the net weight on certain kinds of packages of foods and drugs and providing that bleached flour may be sold without being deemed adulterated within the meaning of the act. The provision compels the branding of both net weight and contents on packages of dairy products, lard, cottolene, or any other substance used in the place of lard, wheat products, oats products, corn products, prepared and unprepared, sugar, syrup, molasses, tea, coffee and dried fruit, and exempting meats, preserved fruits and a few other things from the provisions. Then the provision is added regarding the legality of the sale of bleached flour within the state."

This bill has passed the House and Senate and was signed by the Governor.

Nevada. The Nevada Legislature adjourned and passed Senate Substitute for Assembly Bill No. 48, and was approved by the Governor on March 13, 1909, and is:

"An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale or transportation of adulterated, mislabeled or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines and liquors, and for regulating the traffic therein, providing penalties, and making an appropriation for the carrying out of this act."

New Hampshire.

The Legislature of New Hampshire adjourned and passed the following pure food and sanitary bills, which have been approved by the Governor, and are now the laws of the

state:

"An Act to provide for sanitary inspections of places where food or food products are manufactured in the State of New Hampshire."

"An Act in amendment of an addition to Section 18 of Chapter 127 of the public statutes as amended in 1901 and 1903, relating to the percentage of fat in milk."

"An Act in amendment to the food and drugs law of 1907, relating to the penalty for violation of the said law."

"An Act in amendment of Chapter 72, laws of 1907, relating to the manufacture and sale of ice cream."

New Jersey

The Legislature adjourned April 16.

SENATE BILL NO. 39.

By Mr. Freylinghuysen, Jan. 25, 1909.

Referred to Committee on Public Health.

Relates to dairy products. This bill has passed both Houses, and is now the law.

SENATE BILL NO. 142.
By Mr. Brown.

Referred to Committee on Public Health.

It is a sanitary regulation affecting those maintaining establishments in New Jersey and has passed both Houses, and is now the law of the state.

New Mexico.

The Territorial Legislature has adjourned and passed no new pure food laws.

New York

The Legislature adjourned May 3.

HOUSE BILL 823.

By Mr. Wood, March 2.

Referred to Committee on Public Health.

A bill to repeal Sections 40 to 44 and Section 50 of Chapter 49 of the laws of 1909 entitled "An Act in Relation to the Public Health Constituting Chapter 45 of the Consolidated Laws. This bill has passed the House and Senate.

HOUSE BILL 990.

By Mr. Young.

This bill declares the units or standards of measures of capacity for liquids and the unit or standard of capacity for substances not liquids.

It also provides that all manufacturers of small fruit packages, such as quarts, pints and half-pints, shall mark the word "short" on any package that is a short size. This bill has passed the Assembly and the Senate.

HOUSE BILL NO. 1035.

By Mr. Boshart.

Amends the Agricultural Law in relation to Vinegar. This bill passed the House and Senate.

HOUSE BILL NO. 1036.

By Mr. Boshart.

Amends Section 30 of the Agricultural Law in relation to the Adulteration of Cream,

This bill passed both houses.

HOUSE BILL NO. 1596.

By Mr. Boshart.

Relates to the Sale of Oleomargarine.

This bill has passed both houses.

North Carolina.

The North Carolina Legislature adjourned and passed the following amendment to the food law:

SENATE BILL NO. 1859. This bill reads as follows:

"The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: "Sec. 1. That Chapter 368 of the Public Laws of 1907 be and the same is hereby amended as follows: After the word 'colored' and before the word 'powdered' in line one, subsection four, section six, the word 'bleached.'

"Sec. 2. At the end of section 6 insert the following: 'Eighth. By consent of the Board the Commissioner of Agriculture may when he deems it advisable and to the best interest of the public suspend the action of any provision of subsection 5, section 6 of said act, relating to the use of chemical preservatives and coal tar dyes in food when the provision of said section is not in harmony with the provisions of the National Food Law or rulings thereunder.' "Sec. 3. This act shall be in force from and after its ratification."

The above bill passed both Houses and is now a law.

North Dakota.

The Legislature adjourned March 10th, and passed the three (3) following Food, Dairy, Drug, Liquor and Sanitary Bills: SENATE BILL NO. 67.

By Mr. Kennedy.

SENATE BILL NO. 107. By Mr. Kennedy. HOUSE BILL NO. 307. By Mr. Duncan.

Ohio.

The Legislature of Ohio adjourned March 12 and passed the two following Food Laws:

SENATE BILL NO. 112.

HOUSE BILL NO. 15.

Both of these laws were printed in the March issue of THE AMERICAN FOOD JOURNAL,

Oklahoma.

The Oklahoma Legislature adjourned March 13, and passed the following Bill:

HOUSE BILL NO. 404. By Mr. Stafford.

It is a general food, drink and drug bill and has become a law, and will be published in full in a subsequent issue of this Journal.

Oregon.

The Oregon Legislature adjourned sine die March 1st. and passed the following new Dairy Law:

CHAPTER 237, LAWS OF 1909.

(S. B. 26.) An act to provide measures for improving the quality of milk, cream, butter, and cheese, and for all dairy products of Oregon, and to provide for the employment of deputies qualified to inspect dairies, creameries and cheese factories, and to collect and disseminate valuable dairy information, and to form cow testing associations, and to provide a penalty for its violation.

Pennsylvania

The Pennsylvania Legislature adjourned April 15th.
SENATE BILL NO. 3.

By Mr. Gerberick, Jan. 25, 1909. The legislature adjourned April 15th, and passed the following laws:

S. F. No. 37.

The Murphy Food Act. This bill was signed by Governor Stuart on May 13th and is now the law of the state of Pennsylvania and is reproduced i nfull in another part of this issue. The following acts have been passed, signed by the governor and are now the laws of the State of Pennsylvania:

No. 9.

An act for the protection of the public health, by prohibiting the sale, offering for sale, exposing for sale, or having in possession with intent to sell, of eggs unfit for food, as therein defined, and prohibiting the use of such eggs in the preparation of food products; providing penalties for the violation thereof, and providing for the enforcement thereof.

factories, or other places where food is prepared, manufactured, packed, stored, sold, or distributed, and vehicles in which food is placed for transportation; regulating the health of operatives, employees, clerks, drivers, and all other persons working on the premises who handle the material from which food is prepared or the finished product; defining food; regulating the wholesomeness of food manufactured, prepared, packed, stored, sold, distributed, or transported; and defining the duties of the State Board of Health and the Pure Food and Drug Inspectors, and providing penalties for the violation thereof.

Texas.

The Texas Lgislature has adjourned and passed the following bill:

HOUSE BILL No. 28.

An act of the thirty-first Legislature of Texas to prohibit and prevent adulteration, fraud and deception in the manufacture and sale of foods, drugs and drinks. Approved March 20, 1909. Known as the Pure Food and Drug Law (amending the Blanton pure food law). Introduced by Hon. J. P. Hayter, senator from Wise County; Hon. Worth S. Ray, Hon. F. F. Hill, Representatives from Denton County:

An act to amend chapter 39 of the Acts of the General Laws of the Thirtieth Legislature, entitled "an act to prohibit and prevent the adulteration, fraud and deception in the manufacture of and sale of articles of food and drugs; prescribing penalties for the violation of this act; to provide for the appointment of a Dairy and Food Commissioner and to define his powers and duties and to fix his compensation; and to repeal all laws in conflict with the provisions of this act, and declaring an emergency;" so as to more perfectly prevent the manufacture of, sale of or offering for sale of, misbranded or adulterated food and drugs; to prevent the addition of injurious drugs or articles of foods; to provide for a Dairy and Food Commissioner, one stenographer, one assistant chemist, and two inspectors, fixing their compensation, defining their powers and duties; making an appropriation for the purpose of carrying into effect this act for the remainder of the fiscal year and providing the payment of unpaid salary and expenses of the Pure Food Commissioner and his assistants that accrued under chapter 39 of the acts of the General Laws of the Thirtieth Legislature, and declaring an emergency.

Utah.

The Legislature has adjourned and passed the following Food bills, and are now the Laws of Utah: SENATE BILL NO. 80. By Mr. Williams.

Referred to Committee on Public Health.

Is an act creating a Dairy and Food Bureau, defining its duties, powers, etc.

Section 1 creates a State Dairy and Food Bureau to consist of 9 residents of the state. The Governor, State Chemist, Secretary of the State Board of Health, and State Dairy and Food Commissioner shall be members of the board. Five other members shall be appointed by the Governor, as follows:

One practical manufacturer or packer of food or food products; one practical farmer; one representative of the live stock and slaughter interests; one merchant engaged in the sale of food products, and one member shall be a non-producer of food products.

Section 2 gives the said bureau power to establish rules and regulations for the operation of creameries, butter and cheese factories, dairies, slaughter houses, confectioneries, bakeries, and all places where food is bought, sold, manufactured, prepared or stored. The rules and regulations thus established to conform as nearly as possible with the regulations promulgated by the Agricultural Department of the United States under the Food and Drugs Act, and also under the Meat Inspection Act.

Section 3 makes it an offense to violate any rules or regulations established by the said bureau.

Section 4 appropriates money for carrying out the law. This bill is now the law of the State and is the same as originally presented except that the members of the Commission were reduced to five.