The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-23
ADUITERAr1ONs.

Inc raSCality OF authorizations Is one OF
the mcanest evils with which we have to
contend. The candy makers bring to the
north from one of the Carolinas, many tons
of white earth called "terra alba" which
substance is also mixed with pulverized
white sugar Marble dust is used to adul-
terate white sugar as well as white paint.
Mustard is adulterated with meal. Old
tea leaves are often dried and re-sold. All
kinds of spices and tea and coffee are adul-
terated. People have become so much ac-
customed to these adulterations that their
food seems faulty without them. Coffee
dealers are obliged occasionally to put some
chicory in mans coffee to satisfy him.
In Hartford wholesale establishment by
mistake sold a sack of pure Java to a rcgu-
lar dealer in a town further down the river,
and nearly lost his custom, while the re-
taller came near losing all his customers.
In the adultcration of Mocha coffee kind
of pea is used, precisely resembling the
grain in shape, though not in color, dis
tinction lost in browning. In ground cof-
fee beef livers dried and pulverized are
sometimes used.
In the cities, when butter is high, it is
often adutcrated with lard, while bread,
flour, milk, meal, cider, wine and various
kinds of malt liquors and spirits are adul-
terated with poisonous substances. Drunk
ards do not simply fall a victim to the
li4npr tbn,. ,Nn;gnno1 no1;riu,, tpo
mems is a much more common disease than
it was score or two years ago. In the
mountains of Tennessee the disease was
unknown while the people drank their
homemade apple and peach brandy and
corn whisky, but when they commenced
sending a barrel to Cincinnati and getting
in return swap even Of three barrels of
Cincinnati whisky or brandy, the bowling
monster began to lay hold of them. Time
was when man could drink pretty hard
! for thirty years; now three years hard
drinking will bring on the snakes in the
boots. With liquor a man would then grow
mellow and benevolent. Now, he wants
to beat or kill somebody if little more
lilsll usual lllt NltllOl, lODlttO, lDHMOONl,
potash, strychninc, rotten wood from sew
crs, and other posons, mounts to his
brains.
To endeayor to pnt check on the infa-
nous tampering with peoples healfi and
lives, Il new English law puni.-nes a frst
adulteration with fine r. $3.50; and
second by imprlsonr.ent with hard labor
six months. p5nle the seller is fined one
hundred dollars for the first offence, and
for tnc second he is published in the news
papers at his own expense
The people of this section suffer in New
York city from competition with a chalk
mixture called milk, and from the fraud
called "swill milk" We have large mar
ket there for milk, and if there were
any way to detect adulteration, the pure
article from Vermont and Connecticut
would command higher prices. The
New Workers owe it to themselves to
make still stronger efforts than they
have yet made to have the milk offer
ed in that market examined sharply by eX-
perts. If that work were well done the
association of Vermont and Connecticut
farmers who are operating directly with
consumers, and without the interference of
middle-men, would find the demand large
ly increased for their pure article. Many a
child's life would be saved, and many a
year of comfort added to the harrassed,
cheated and poisoned New York term of
terrestrial existence. 1t would be a special
bencfaction to the people of that city who
buy milk, and to the people of the country
who buy groceries and provisions in New
York if the legislature of that state would
put in operation there the English law
against adulterations, of which we have
made mention