Food, Drink, Flavoring Extracts, Confectionery or Condiment is Misbranded If the package fails to state the quantity of habit-forming drugs. If it is labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead the purchaser. If it purports to be a foreign product when it is not. If in package form, and the contents are stated in terms of weight or measure, they are not plainly and correctly stated on the outside of the package. If a flavoring extract, for which no standard exists, it is not labeled "artificial" or "imitation" and the formula printed in per cents. of 100. If the label on a package is false or misleading in any particular. Mixtures or compounds which are ordinary articles or ingredients of articles of food or drink can be legally sold if they are branded as such and the formula printed in per cents of 100 as required by law. Adulteration and Misbranding of The State Dairy and Food Commissioner says food or drink is adulterated If anything has been mixed with it to lower its quality. it. If a cheaper substance has been added to If a valuable ingredient has been abstracted from it. If it is an imitation of or sold under the name of another article. If it consists wholly or in part of tainted animal or vegetable matter. If it is colored or changed to make it appear better than it is. If it contains anything poisonous or injurious to health. If its strength or quality falls below a recognized standard. If it falls below a professed standard in quality. If it contains any methyl or wood alcohol. Bad Eggs The Ohio law forbids the sale or offering for sale of eggs unfit for human food. Section 5778, Sub-division 5: "If it consists wholly, or in part, of a diseased, decomposed, putrid, infected, tainted, or rotten animal or vegetable substance," etc. To avoid the penalties under the law, the State Dairy and Food Department requests all persons to candle all eggs sold or offered for sale. As good as this edition of the Ohio Almanac is, the next edition will be bet'ter. The law creating this institution was enacted April 12,1884; cornerstone was laid in 1886. The object of this institution is reformatory. Inmates are supposed to be first offenders, are admitted for all crimes except murder in the first degree, between the ages of 16 and 30. Male persons only are admitted. There are three grades: first, second and third. When inmates are admitted they are placed in the second grade; if their conduct justifies at the expiration of six months, they are promoted to the first grade, in which they remain for a second six months, when, if their conduct justifies, they are recommended to the Board of Managers for parole. With the consent of the Board of Managers they go out and remain the wards of the state under the supervision of the institution for one year, when, if their conduct justifies, they are fully discharged, and restored to citizenship by the Governor. Inmates are reduced to the third grade from either the first or second for punishment for certain misdemeanors. They receive an indeterminate sentence from the court and the length of time they remain is governed largely by their conduct. They can be released at the expiration of the minimum time prescribed by law for the crime committed, or can be retained until the maximum time has expired. They are required to attend school and learn such trades as it is possible to teach them. Boys' Industrial School at Lancaster The Boys' Industrial School is Ohio's reformatory for juvenile male offenders. It is six miles south of Lancaster, Fairfield county, on the Hocking hills. The boys are taught agriculture and horticulture to the extent of producing all the vegetables and fruit that the institution consumes. The institution is organized on the cottage or segregate system, is not surrounded by walls, and is entirely free from bolts, bars or other suggestions of restraint. It was the first penal institution in America to make the "open system" experiment, and so successfully was it operated that twenty-eight states have used the Lancaster school as a model. These boys range in age from 10 to 21 years and are serving indeterminate sentences. When received at the school they are charged with demerits corresponding in number to the nature of the crime. These demerits must be cancelled by exemplary deportment in school and shop, before release. When released, a boy is on parole and can be returned for misconduct at any time before he reaches his majority. |