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be mistaken for the same, or which represent a design of a lur in any connection whatever. Likewise it is forbidden, without the consent of the Danish Minister of Agriculture, to manufacture or to import to this country the stamps, blocks, &c, necessary for the production of the marks. Section 9. Whosoever manufactures butter from pasteurized cream or milk, and wishes to have the right to use the lurbrand, shall send a notification in writing to this effect to the police. As soon as the police have ascertained that the party in question is in possession of the apparatus necessary for the production of such butter, the inspector of the butter and margarine control shall immediately be informed by the police of the notification made, subsequent to which the applicant shall be considered as accepted for control and shall be entitled to obtain from the police an acknowledgment of the notification. The Minister of Agriculture shall provide that the applicant subsequently be admitted, against payment, to have delivered to him packing articles, controlling - slips, wrapping - paper, &c, provided with the lurbrand ; eventually also with letters or numbers, or both. So long as a dairy has the right to use the, lurbrand it must pasteurize all cream and milk from which butter is produced, and all skim-milk which is supplied from the dairy. Should the accountbooks of the dairy not contain the necessary information concerning the receipt and the use of the above-mentioned lurbranded articles, the dairy shall keep a book regarding this, according to the further directions of the Minister of Agriculture. According to a proposal made by the mutual organization of the dairy trade, the Minister of Agriculture may, furthermore, order the dairies which have been accepted for control to participatein the exhibitions of butter arranged by the agricultural economical testing laboratory, according to the rules laid down for same, and to participate in the butter exhibitions arranged by dairy organizations. The articles bearing the lurbrand which have been delivered to the dairy must only be used by the dairy owner or dairy lessee who has applied for them, or in the co-operative dairy to which they have been supplied, and in the event of the dairy-owner, dairy lessee, or co-operative creamery concerned ceasing to manufacture butter from pasteurized cream and milk, the fact shall be notified at once to the police thereof in writing. In the event of the manufactory being moved, a notification in writing to this effect must be made to the police in the old, as well as in the new, place. The hereinmentioned notifications of termination, removal, or starting at a new place shall be communicated by the police to the inspector of the butter and margarine control concerned without delay. At the termination or removal of the business and at change of owner or lessee, the remaining quantity of lurbranded articles in stock shall be returned subject to compensation. The liability of notification herebefore mentioned shall apply respectively to the owner, the Chairman of the Board, of the, dairy in question, or to the lessee, in the event of lease. As regards the fulfilment of the regulations made in the present law, the dairy shall generally be submitted to inspection of the butter and margarine control according to the further instructions given by the Minister of Agriculture and by the police. In the event of the mutual organization of the dairy trade establishing a control recognized by the Minister of Agriculture, drawing the attention to the regulations for the pasteurization stipulated in the present law including the whole country, or in the event of such control being arranged by the local dairy organizations, including smaller districts, part of the kingdom or country, the Minister of Agriculture may, respectively for the whole country or the local districts in question, wholly or partly waive the police control. Section 10. In the event of a dairy accepted for control acting contrary to the stipulations prescribed by this law, or as a consequence of this law, the Minister of Agriculture shall be entitled to deprive the dairy of the right of using the' lurbrand, and to have returned through the police the balance in stock of the "articles marked with, the lurbrand which have been delivered to the dairy. The Minister of Agriculture may, accordiug to rules which are to be laid down at the request of the mutual organization of the dairy trade, temporarily deprive such dairies whose butter is deemed unfit for exportation of the right to use the lurbrand. Section 11. The Minister of Agriculture may give authorization — (a) To repack butter which is provided with the lurbrand in the manner prescribed in section 6, with the use of the lurbrand outside the place of production ; and (b) to repack such butter in hermetically sealed receptacles, with the use of the special marks mentioned in section 6, second paragraph, outside the place of production. For granting of the authorizations here referred to it shall be a condition that no butter be introduced into the business referred to other than butter marked with the lurbrand. The Minister of Agriculture may, however, grant a special authorization permitting the same business to pack lurbrand as well as foreign butter, provided the business submits to a special control appointed by the Minister of Agriculture, which, however, shall be abolished in the event of the packing of respectively lurbranded and foreign butter taking place on premises which are distinctly apart from one another. The expenses incurred by the special control shall be defrayed by the business in question. Section 12. Butter which, either wholesale or retail, is offered for sale or held for sale within this country under the description lurbranded butter, or any other description which can be mistaken for this, shall be kept in the original packing, and be provided with at least one of the controlling labels affixed at the place of production, it shall be permitted, however, to cut the butter-cask athwart in two parts.