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Show PUSH-IN STOPPER !8 TO M BilftiiPI Tho first action to be taken by the dairy and food department In a sweeping campaign to be conducted against violations of the pure food Jaw, will be the ban against serving pop. in bottles having the "push-in' stopper. It was decided last year by tho dairy and food bureau to prohibit tho salp of nop In these bottles and the order will go Into effect April -1. Tho bureau promises Immediate prosecution prosecu-tion of violators of the order. All dealers will, however, receive 4UC n-tico n-tico before the oenlng of the season. At a meeting held Tuesday in tho offices of "Willard Hansen, stato dalrv and food commissioner this action and others of importauco were decided upon. Ju an endeavor to stop tho practice common among grocerymen of selling sell-ing cottonseed oil labeled "pure ollva oil," the commissioner and his deputies depu-ties are on tho lookout for Imitations q olivo oil on the shelves of tho groceries and markets. It Is understood under-stood that several brands of so-called olive oil are being marketed in the state. Tho matter or the "shrinkage" of butter is aso receiving tho attention of tho dairy and food commissioner and it ia purposed to compel dealers and, manufacturers to do away with the excuse of 8ljrInk3go when butter is found (o he short weight, Thp commission has decided to allow a shrinkage of but 3 per cent In butter and intondBto force, dealers to sell butter sixteen ounces to' tho pound, as labeled. |