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When sold by retailers, the " Vandsmor " must be, exhibited in the shop, visible to the purchaser, and must be provided with a placard in full, view of the purchaser bearing the indication " Vandsmor." In the event of " Vandsmor" not being delivered to the purchaser in a receptacle labelled " Vandsmor," the inner packing of the butter must be labelled " Vandsmor." Further regulations concerning the marking of " Vandsmor " shall be issued by the Minister of Agriculture. The stipulations relating to sale contained in this section shall also apply to members of co-operative societies and purveyors. exportation. Section 3. It shall be forbidden to export from this country butter containing more than 16 per cent, of water or containing preservatives other than common salt, and to export Danish butter coloured by means of aniline dyes. Section 4. Danish butter must not be exported from this country unless it has been produced in a dairy accepted for control and from pasteurized cream or milk (at a temperature of at least 80° Celsius, 176° Fahrenheit), and has there been provided with the joint mark mentioned in section 6. Nevertheless, the Minister of Agriculture may authorize the exportation of Danish butter, packed in hermetically sealed receptacles, without the application of the joint mark (compare section 6 and section 11). Section 5. The Minister of Agriculture shall be empowered, if requested by the mutual organizations of the dairy and the commercial trades, to issue a decree containing regulations as to the preservation of purity and cleanliness in creameries and on premises where butter is offered for sale. B. SPECIAL REGULATIONS CONCERNING BUTTER. 1. Lurbranded (Horn-marked) Butter. Section 6. A universal brand applying to the whole of the country shall be prescribed by Royal decree, and shall be attached at the place of production (the creamery) as stipulated in the decree to all butter which is produced in the creameries accepted for control in this country (compare section 9) from pasteurized (heated to 80° Celsius, 176° Fahrenheit) cream (whey-cream excepted) or milk, and containing not more than 16 per cent, of water. This universal brand shall be styled " the iurbrand." The universal brand shall be affixed both to the packing and to paper slips (controlling-slips) which shall be placed directly on the butter, and the Minister of Agriculture may stipulate that in so far as the lurbrand is concerned various letters or numbers, or both jointly, may be applied, and prescribe the further regulations for the marking. In the decree it may be prescribed that butter in pieces not exceeding 5 kilogrammes in weight shall be, exempt from being marked by means of controlling-slips. The lurbrand shall not be applied to butter which is delivered from the dairy to the owner, the lessee of the dairy, the co-operators, or purveyors, for their own consumption, or at the place of production (the dairy) in accordance with special authority given for this purpose, is packed for export in hermetically sealed receptacles, subject to the condition that each single receptacle and the packing of the same are both provided with the special marking prescribed by the Minister of Agriculture, from which it will be seen that the produce is Danish. Such butter must not be retailed in this country. Section 7. The lurbrand and such brands as might be mistaken,for it, as well as brands which represent the design of a lur (horn) in any shape whatever, must not illegally or without permission of the Minister of Agriculture be found on other goods or on the packing of other butter, which has been produced from pasteurized cream or milk, and with a percentage of water not exceeding 16 per cent, in the dairies accepted for control (compare section 6, first clause). Foreign, Icelandic, or Danish West Indian goods must neither be imported or shipped in transit when the goods themselves or the packing are provided with the lurbrand or brands of the above-mentioned description. On the other hand nothing shall prevent Danish butter bearing the iurbrand from being returned from abroad provided that the Danish origin of the butter is proved to the satisfaction of the Custom authorities. Brands in which the lur, or the like, is represented must subsequently not be registered as trade- ■ marks, and trade-marks of this description which have already been registered, must not in future be used for provisions. A renewal of the registration of such trade-marks must therefore only take place subject to the condition that the registration is at the same time so far limited as not to include provisions. It is forbidden, without the consent of the Minister of Agriculture, to offer for sale, hold for sale from this country, or export empty packing or parts of packing on which a lur is represented in any connection whatever. It is forbidden in the dairies accepted for control to introduce butter which is not provided with the lurbrand as prescribed in section 6. Section 8. It is forbidden,- without the permission of the Danish Minister of Agriculture, to manufacture or to import to this country reproductions or printed copies of the lurbrand or of the brands which might