NEBRASKA.

Fruit or grain vinegar, 4 per centum acetic acid.

Cider vinegar, solids, 2 per centum.

Artificial coloring matter prohibited. (Laws 1897, chap. 4.)

NEW YORK.

Acetic acid, 4.5 per centum.

Solids, 2 per centum.

Artificial coloring matter prohibited. (Laws 1893, chap. 338, art. III, § 50.)

OHIO.

Cider vinegar, acidity 4 per centum.

Solids, 2 per centum.

Artificial coloring matter prohibited. (Laws 1887; amended by Laws 1888.)

PENNSYLVANIA.

Cider vinegar, acidity 4 per centum.

Solids, 1 per centum by weight at a temperature of boiling water. Foreign substances, drugs or acids, prohibited.

Fermented vinegar, not distilled, solids, 1 per centum by weight at a temperature of boiling water.

All fruit or grain vinegars, acetic acid 4 per centum. Foreign substances are prohibited, but an amount of spices necessary for flavoring, if such spices do not color the vinegar, is permitted. (Laws 1897, No. 140.)

Acidity, 4 per centum.

WISCONSIN.

If cider vinegar, 2 per cent solids in addition.

Barrels containing vinegar are to be branded with the standard strength of contents, which shall be denoted by the strength of acetic acid. (Laws 1891, chap. 394.)

LAWS RELATING TO VINEGAR.

CONNECTICUT.

Chapter 67, Laws of 1897, is an act concerning the adulteration of vinegar and reads as follows:

Section 1. "Section one of chapter 60 of the public acts of 1889,

is hereby amended by striking out the words 'other than acetic,' in the fifth and sixth lines thereof, so that said section, when amended, shall read as follows: No person shall make or sell, or make for sale, as cider vinegar, any vinegar not produced wholly from the juice of apples. No person shall add to any vinegar, or to any article sold or to be sold as vinegar, any drug, any hurtful or foreign substance, any coloring matter, or any acid. Any person violating this section of this act shall be fined fifty dollars for a first offense, and for a second or later offense, he shall be fined one hundred dollars and imprisoned thirty days."

§ 2. "Section two of said act is hereby amended by striking out the words "in case of cider vinegar, the words 'cider vinegar,' and inserting in lieu thereof the words "the true name of the kind of vinegar contained therein as cider vinegar,'' wine vinegar,' 'malt vinegar,' or 'wood acid vinegar,'" so that said section, when amended, shall read as follows: No person shall make and sell, or make for sale, any vinegar not having an acetic acidity equivalent to the presence therein of not less than four per centum by weight, of absolute acetic acid, and in case of cider vinegar, not less than two per centum by weight of cider vinegar solids upon full evaporation over boiling water. No maker of vinegar shall sell the same without conspicuously branding, stenciling, or painting upon the head of the barrel, cask, keg, or package containing the same, the name of the maker, his residence, or place of manufacture, and the true name of the kind of vinegar contained therein, as "cider vinegar," "wine vinegar," "malt vinegar," or "wood acid vinegar;" provided, that this clause concerning marking shall not apply to retail sales, at the place of manufacture, in quantities of less than five gallons, and in open packages. Any person violating this section of this act shall be fined ten dollars for a first offense, and for a second or later offense, fifty dollars."

§3. "Section 3 of chapter 60 of the public act of 1889 as amended by section 1 of chapter 234 of the public act of 1889, is hereby amended by striking out the words 'other than acetic,' in the tenth line thereof, and also by striking out the words 'made in

this State and purchased by the person last mentioned of the maker,' so that said section as amended shall read as follows: No person shall sell, or offer, or expose for sale, or exchange, or solicit, or receive any order for the sale or delivery within this State or for delivery without this State for shipment into this State; first, any vinegar, as cider vinegar, not wholly produced from the juice of apples; or second, any vinegar, or article sold or to be sold as vinegar, in which has been added any drug, or any hurtful or foreign substance, or any coloring matter, or any acid; or third, any vinegar not having an acetic acidity equivalent to the presence therein of not less than four per centum by weight of absolute acetic acid, and in case of cider vinegar, not less than two per centum by weight of cider vinegar solids upon full evaporation over boiling water; or fourth, any vinegar in a barrel, cask, keg or other package not branded, stenciled or painted as required by a previous section of this act. Any person violating this section of this act shall be fined $10 for a first offense, and for a second or later offense $50. The delivery of any of the above mentioned articles upon any order solicited or received within this State shall be conclusive evidence that the order upon which such delivery was made was for such articles, and shall render the person soliciting or receiving such order liable to the penalty above prescribed."

ILLINOIS.

The manufacture and sale of impure cider vinegar, and that of vinegars containing acids injurious to health, is punishable by fines. (Laws 1883, p. 176.)

INDIANA.

It is deemed a misdemeanor to manufacture or sell, offer or expose for sale, cider vinegar which is not cider vinegar, or adulterating vinegar; also, to manufacture or sell vinegar containing ingredients injurious to health; manufacturers of cider vinegar must brand each package containing the same with the name, residence of manufacturer, State where manufactured and the words "cider vinegar." (Laws 1889, chap. 70.)

KANSAS.

It is punishable by a fine of not less than $50, nor more than $100, to manufacture for sale or expose for sale as cider vinegar any vinegar not cider vinegar, or adulterate the same; also, any vinegar containing lead, copper, etc. The provisions of the act apply to preparations of fruit, vegetables, etc., in which vinegar is one of the principal ingredients. Casks, barrels, etc., are required to be branded with the words "cider vinegar," when it is such, and if a false brand is used the same penalty is imposed as aforesaid. (Laws 1891, chap. 1, p. 1.)

KENTUCKY.

Packages containing vinegar, placed and offered for sale, shall be labeled, branded or marked with process of manufacture and material of which it is made; if it is not as represented the violator is punishable by a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $100. (R. S., § 1282.)

MAINE.

The manufacture, sale or branding of any vinegar not the prod uct of pure apple juice, or the adulteration of vinegar by foreign substances and ingredients injurious to health, is prohibited. (Laws 1881, chap. 6.)

MARYLAND.

Adulteration of vinegar prohibited; also, the sale and importation into the State, when known to be adulterated, or in any way sophisticated. Violation of law is punishable by fine or imprisonment, the article so adulterated to be forfeited and destroyed. (Laws 1890, chap. 604.)

MASSACHUSETTS.

The adulteration of vinegar is forbidden; cider vinegar to be sold as cider vinegar. (Laws 1884, chap. 307.)

MICHIGAN.

Section 1. "No person shall manufacture for sale, offer or expose for sale, sell or deliver, or have in possession with intent to sell or deliver, any vinegar not in compliance with the provisions of this act. No vinegar shall be sold as apple, orchard or cider

vinegar, which is not the legitimate product of pure apple juice, known as apple cider or vinegar, not made exclusively of said apple cider or vinegar into which foreign substances, drugs or acids have been introduced as may appear upon proper test, and upon said test, shall contain not less than one and three-fourths per cent. by weight, of cider vinegar solids upon full evapora tion at the temperature of boiling water."

§ 2. "All vinegar made by fermentation and oxidation without the intervention of distillation, shall be branded" fermented vinegar," with the name of the fruit or substance from which the same is made. And all vinegar made wholly or in part from distilled liquor, shall be branded "distilled vinegar," and all of such distilled vinegar shall be free from coloring matter added during or after distillation and from color other than that imparted to it by distillation. And all fermented vinegar not distilled shall contain not less than one and three-fourths per cent, by weight, upon full evaporation (at the temperature of boiling water) of solids contained in the fruit or grain from which said vinegar is fermented, and said vinegar shall contain not less than two and a half tenths of one per cent. ash or mineral matter, the same being the product of the material from which said vinegar is manufactured. And all vinegar shall be made wholly from the fruit or grain from which it purports to be or is represented to be made, and shall contain no foreign substance, and shall contain not less than four per cent. by weight, of absolute acetic acid."

§ 3. "No person shall manufacture for sale, offer for sale, or have in his possession with intent to sell, any vinegar found upon proper test, to contain any preparation of lead, copper, sulphuric or other mineral acid, or other ingredients injurious to health. And all packages containing vinegar shall be marked, stenciled or branded on the head of the cask, barrel or keg containing such vinegar with the name and residence of the manufacturer, together with brand required in section two hereof."

§ 4. "Whoever violates any of the provisions of this act shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than