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Show DEMANDS SIXTEEN . OUNCES Of SUTTER . IN TOY- POUND Food Commissioner Gives Makers Two Months to Comply With Law. i , Willard Hansen, state . food aad dairy comnjrssioner, ha sent notice to forty-three butter manufacturers and dairymen in th stat notifying them that after September 1 th term "15-lft "15-lft ' niinrm printed, pn. butteurappcr, will aot do, aad that each '.'pound" of butter must bsve printed oa it -wrapper the weight of the butter, exclusive of the wrapper. This actioa haa bee a taken because is kia recent investigation in Salt Lake, F. 6. Holbrook, United Stale inspector of weights and measures, found that butter "pounds", being sold her were short in weight of the 1S4 ounce required re-quired by law. The " 15 18 "( ounces label oa butter waa eliding acale arrangement ar-rangement worked out by the butter makers to get around th law .which require th weight of the package to. be printed thereon. Attorney General Barnes ha held that the "15-18" ounce label la illegal, and to demand mor striet conformation conforma-tion to th law, Mr. Hansen haa sent notice to all butter manufacturers. The makers of butter are given until un-til September 1 to make arrangements to comply with the law. Those who violate the law after that time will be prosecuted. Mr. Holbrooh found in bia investigation that the average weight of the "pound" of- butter bought by th Utah consumer 1 only 14.7 ounce. |