Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1913 — Testing Adulterated Butter. [ARTICLE]

Testing Adulterated Butter.

A device for testing adulterated butter invented by a government chemist is being given a trial by the internal revenue officers. The objeet of the Instrument is to detect toe amount of water in butter. Good creamery butter contains from ten to twelve per cent qf water. If toe quantity is over sixteen per cent the law construes the article as adulterated and levies a tax of ten cents a pound on It.