...Act to Prevent Deception in the Sale of Butter and Cheese," and the other, approved May 24, 1883, and entitled "An Act for the Protection of Dairymen, and to Prevent Deception in Sales of Butter and Cheese," provision was made for the stamping, branding.or marking, in a prescribed...

...state so it was only fitting that the first state law regulating the sale of margarine was New York's "An act for the protection of dairymen, and to prevent deception in sales of butter," taking effect in 1877. 5 Other states followed suit and by 1886, thirty-four states...

...legitimate product of the dairy, unless plainly marked " imitation cheese." Chapter 238, Laws 1882, is entitled "An act for the protection of dairymen, and to prevent deception in the sales of butter and cheese," and provides (section 1) that every person who shall manufacture for sale,...

...supply of the District, made its first move toward that end on January 25, 1879, by passing an act entitled ''An act for the protection of dairymen, and to prevent deception in sales of butter and cheese in the District of Columbia." The act, as its title imports, was solely...