, 1874-08-16

from 26 to 50 cents, while the retail dealers
nsyer sell this brand ut less than 60 cents =
gallon.
Reporter-Hov about your Rhine wine yiuegar7
t Mauufncturer-Ths is merely an extfa strong
picking vinegar, with little coloriug adtted to
| induce business. People are willing to pay from
s to 10 cents extra per gallon for the cooring
| material aud the brand which We place Upon
| the barrel The Tlnegar-manufacturlng huBl-
ness suffers in common with many other manu-
| featuring trades in Chicago. II We put Chicago
brand on the barrels We would not sell gallon.
The common belief is that good vinegar cannot
be made in Chicago, but the foreign brand over
/ comes ali preiudices.
Repor.er-I see that the Wholesale dealers
margin OF profit is quite small, while that OF the
retailer averages from $50 to 400 per cent.
Manufacturer figures give you are un-
fortunately the correct ones. The profits made
by the retailer are simply enormous, but this
evil is not to be compared to that OF selling or
binary table vinegar OF thirty y-gran strength to
| parties intending to pickle. Thus, too, is an
evil to which the wholesale dealers ata party.
Reporter-b not the popular idea regarding
| the manufacture OF vinegar widely different
| from the process hBye just observed? .
Ma.ufacturer-It is generally supposed that
all vinegar iB the result OF the uatural souring
the publi&: we're dependent upon this KIND OF
vinegar pi.-hlea would be a much scarcer and
dearer comm odity than they no" are.
Just Is GOOD.
Reporter-Ia the artificial as pure and benef-
cial as the natura.' vinegar?
shows them to be ID sntical in their component
parts.
Reporter-There is 4 good deal Of adulteraton
in the vinegar sold at pr 'Hent, il there not!
on Thu this market % is % adultera. rs cd The most co'n-
mon adulte1atious arc alum, murauc 1n and SUI.
phuric acid, and red pepper. Ihe Ii P presence oi OF
alum or red pepper Ii detected by tne TASTE tnat
OF the acids mentioned BY teRs Win solullon
OF sugar Of lead. II these acieh' are present IN
vinegar the uugar Of lead solution Will convert It
into liquid Of the color and cs'nslstency OF
milk.
neporter-Who are tho principal customers Of
the Chicago made vinegars?
msnase:nS1he cad peho .s na enera
Northwestern trade. Chicago is big
tories sre The Crystal Lake Pickle 1compan V.
Dingie Bros, Badlong Bros, Weodstoek Pickle
and '' tho Chicago s'''I Pickle Company. ali
vinegar. Most Of the foregn~brand pickles
sold in Chicago are also made hero all except
the English chow-chow, which cannon be pro-
finer vegetable than can be grown in this cout.
try The 4o-grain vinegar docs for pickles used
up North, but 50grain vinegar has to DO en-
ployed for those which go to southerly lal-
rrr p1cr1=r coys11,11yf Capacity
nf TIM Ameyican nuhlic. viii tali Won that one
pckle-house in Ills clty uuts up annualy about
80. COO barrels Of uickled c,lcumbefs. Iu eact of
theua barrels thrre are ahont , O0O cucn1nlera
making an .nnnai tota] of IN nm, fl0) cucun,lers
r., 1;c1e ,haaa ran,'raa ~ iosa Inn s5 ma eaI-
1o1,a ~ r;nscsr ''91A1~ 80 A0s A~'~ ~''''1
RenortereWb.t onantity of vinegar do YOU
snnnose in consumed annna,l, bv ali the Chicago
nici,Iing-honses
Mxn1facturer-Not less than 10000 barrels.
or .bo',, 9 nm ao0 '.1,nns Ti,;a ~ snnnioa Nv
shont n;ns,asn fscTo-;es ~ ,rh,.h sir nniv ara
e1tensiye. Threo Of the pickle-factories.
mannf.ctn-e the,r o,rn ,;necay to a cerfa,n
..1tent' Their nicil;u". husirass i, sc extensive
however fhat tLay ara d. nandcnt .uoon us for