. A free farmer in a free state: a study of rural life and industry and agricultural politics in an agricultural country . ent of the honest butter-maker. Agood deal has been said about this Dutch faking quantities of adulterated butter may have been ex-ported, but this wholesale butter adulteration was not doneby the farmers or creameries, but by a separate class ofpeople.* Although the amount of adulterated butter wasvery small compared with the total output, it did a gooddeal of harm to the honest butter trade. Putting aside the difficulty of stopping any fraud by legis-latio
. A free farmer in a free state: a study of rural life and industry and agricultural politics in an agricultural country . ent of the honest butter-maker. Agood deal has been said about this Dutch faking quantities of adulterated butter may have been ex-ported, but this wholesale butter adulteration was not doneby the farmers or creameries, but by a separate class ofpeople.* Although the amount of adulterated butter wasvery small compared with the total output, it did a gooddeal of harm to the honest butter trade. Putting aside the difficulty of stopping any fraud by legis-lation alone, there is, in the case of butter, the additionaldifficulty of telling when it is pure and when it is not. Ananalyst can never say with absolute certainty that a butteris pure merely on the strength of a chemical and physicalanalysis. A certificate of purity can only be given, asDr. van Ryn said on another occasion, when the origin ofthe sample is known and when its chemical composition can * The Dutch Chamber of Commerce in London has done anexcellent work in keeping an eye on the operations of butter o ^ (J c S .5 3 43
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