es as make up interstate commerce. If an article is made and sold
within the boundaries of any single state, it is not subject to the
national law, nor could this national law be applied to the production
or sale of any article from a farm unless that article was well enough
known to be generally distributed. For example, maple sirup, widely
advertised and generally sold, would be subject to the provisions of the
national law. Butter and cheese, sold locally, would not be subject to
such a law. It is evident, therefore, that this law does not usually
apply to farm products, unless, as in the case of some sausages, for
example, a widely advertised campaign has been instituted to promote
their sale.

There are, however, in the different states, laws which do apply locally
and which prohibit adulteration of all sorts. In New York State, for
example, the law says that no person shall, within the state,
manufacture, produce, compound, brew, distill, have, sell, or offer for
sale any adulterated food or product, and the law further specifies that
an article shall be deemed to be adulterated:--

"1. If any substance or substances has or have been mixed with
it so as to reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality
or strength.

"2. If any inferior or cheaper substance or substances have
been substituted wholly or in part for the article.

"3. If any valuable constituent of the article has been wholly
or in part abstracted.

"4. If it be an imitation or be sold under the name of another
article.

"5. If it consists wholly or in part of diseased or decomposed
or putrid or rotten animal or vegetable substance, whether
manufactured or not, or in the case of milk, if it is the
produce of a diseased animal.

"6. If it be colored, or coated, or polished, or powdered,
whereby damage is concealed, or it is made to appear better
than it really is, or of greater value.

"7. If it contain any added poisonous ingredient, or any
ingredient which may render such article injurious to the
health of the person consuming it. Provided that an article of
food which does not contain any ingredient injurious to health
shall not be deemed to have been adulterated, in the case of
mixtures or compounds which may be now, or from time to time
hereafter, known as articles of food under their own
distinctive names, or which