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Show BUTTER SUM DIE SHIMS! Further Facts That Will Be Contained in Peterson's Report to Governor. SAYS THERE IS CLEAR CASE OF MISREPRESENTATION Indications of a Butter Trust, According to State Food Inspector. "If misrepresentation of foodstuffs as lo brand or quality is an offense against the pure food ordinances and laws, then all but two of tho local creamori.es aro liable to prosecution for violntion of tho pure food laws," Stato .Food and Dairy Commissioner John Peterson strongly intimated Saturday. Tho Jensen Creamory company is uot onot of tho two exceptions. t The Jensen Creamery company is putting put-ting out one brand ot butt or known as tho Eureka in one-pound packages labelled: "Delivered from the chum to tho table." "Yes, this may bo correct," said Mr.' Peterson Saturday afternoon. "But it's u far cry from the churn to the table. In, fact, it's more than 2000 miles. This is a misrepresentation. "Then this creamery is also putting out another brand of butter known aa Hazelnut in ouo-pound packages which bear this label: 'Made from pure cream, aerated and handled according to the best scientific methods of butter but-ter making, -regardless of expense.' "This, too. is a clear misrepresentation." misrepresenta-tion." said Mr. Peterson. As a matter of fact much of this butter is made from tho outside cubes of eastern butter, but-ter, which becomes flavored with wood from long contact with the wooden cube or bos in which it is shipped. Incorporated Incor-porated into this wood-flavored, stalo product is a certain amount of Utah cold storage butter inferior or not, as the case may be. How It Is Labeled. This butter is put out labeled as mado from pure cream. Tho cream may havo been pure when it was incorporated into butter eight months ago, but it doesn 'I necessarily follow that it is either pure or fresh now. It may be wholesome onough. but that is another matter. , An inferior grade of butter may be just as wliolosoino as a superior brand. That is a matter to be determined de-termined largely b' tho physical effect upou tho consumer. "Now, there is a clear misrepresentation, misrepresenta-tion, but whether it amounts to onough to constitute an offense against which a prosccutiou will lie I don 't know. After I submit my renort to the gov-ornor, gov-ornor, which will bo Monday, I am going go-ing to lay thoso facts, with some other important things along this lino, beforo tho county attorney and see what he thinks about it. If ho considers tho facts sufficient to institute proceedings prosocutious certainly will ho started." Thoeo misrepresentations plainly come under tho federal laws regulatjng tho purity and wholesomeness of foodstuffs, food-stuffs, but it is not certain that tho misrepresentations complained of are covered by local ordinances or laws. As to a butter trust, Mr. Peterson says that he has evidence of meetings of butter but-ter dealers followed suspiciously enough tho next day 1)3 a suddon general decline de-cline or ndvanco in tho price of butter among the butter doalors. These things naturally look suspicious, but tho evidence evi-dence is not sufficient to iustifj' prosecution prose-cution for maintaining a trust. Mr. Peterson's report, typewritten, covers several pages, and is exhaustive as to what the commissioner has learned from his investigation. |