Show I NOW T AT LAST A WE CAN CAI BUY i TROY WEIGHTING IS DONE AWAY WITH A REAL POUND OF BUTTER 1 Lr JL JL LIU i 1 For man many years jeara ars pounds of butt butter r have been extremely rare In Utah Not that butter is scarce In this state or has hils been scarce It Is plentiful hut But pounds of or butter ha have been rare They will not be however from now on The new weights and measures law makes it possible a pound of butter to be bought Butter especially during durin tho the season season sea sea- son flon when Its Us price Is high is valuable ble bit When the product Is 10 40 cents a pound proud Is the man who can appear among amonI his fellows with a bit bitof bitof bitof of It showing on his mustache thus proving pro ho ate some of it on his breakfast bread Acting on this theory the butter makers of or tho the state weighed butter Is is assumed b by the Tro Troy weight the thel system employed for measuring gold and other valuable valuable ble hIe minerals Only Twelve Ounces to Pound D By Dy this system there are arc but hut twelve twel ounces to the tho pound As most of the I butter that has b been n on the market I for several se years and years and Ic legally lly at that has has weighed at least fifteen ounces to the package tho the supposition is 18 that the butter manufacturers cleared their consciences by the thought that the they were really giving more than th n a n pound pound pound-by by the Tro Troy weight But Dut butter although valuable at times Is not a mineral In spite of or ofUs orIts Its Us golden yellow ellow color So the tho people people peo peo- pie of at Utah learning that sixteen sixteen- ounce pounds of butter were required in th nearly all nIl other othor states demanded through their representatives that this practical fraud be abolished Tho The statement that tho the fifteen system tern tem was a fraud Is based on the these e grounds Give me a a. pound of butter said Mrs Housewife All AU right replies Mr Grocer and he hands her h r a t package Hands her h r a p package Is right for although sho ho called for tor a n pound tho the package e said plainly fifteen ounces net iset and It takes takeR sixteen en ounces avoirdupois to make a n pound Its It's Different Now All this IB is changed Short pounds are now against the la law and when a person peron asks for a poun pound 1 she will get fet geta feta a pound The law became effective o upon its passage and If you jou OU are observing ob- ob serving ou will vill see some ome c of the old ounce fifteen packages os with a piece of yellow jellow paper bearing the words Sixteen ounces net These packages ha have ve b been n transformed transformed transformed trans trans- formed Into pounds According to Heber C. C Smith state slate dairy and food commissioner all tho the butter hutter packages packages pack pack- ages UJ now on the market contain full fuU pounds lOunds O Under the new law packages of or butter like All AU Gaul are divisa In irs partem tres In other othel words quarter quarter quarter ter pounds half hal pounds and pounds may be sold old It Is believed that no separate packages es containing a mere quarter or half pound of butter buller will willo 10 o marketed However man many of tho the creameries already have pounds of butter butler In packages divided Into separately sepa sepa- separately wrapped quarter pounds and hese will be sold separately if tr called for tor quarter poun pounds s will be bc handy hand or picnic parties and dwellers In apartment S |