The Irish standard., 1886-11-13
IMPURE N GLASSES.
livery Barrel Said to Be Adulter-
ated with Glucose.
Why Adnlteratfon Ii Resorted to hy Tho,s
Who Sell It-Sorghum Threatening
to Usurp Its Place-The Manu-
facturet Of AIolaases.
Is Resorted to nv Tho,e
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Composition, which is so freely quoted
rs being the life Of trade, is apt to be the
death of 1t unless some stringent laws are
passed affecting the adulteration Of the
many different articles of food which en-
ter into daily consumption to provide the
sustenance of lite in every rich and poor
family on this continent Ever since the
recent exposure in Boston of the salts Of
tin authorizations in molasses'the attention
OF grocerymen in the Wesv has been
conferred upon the state of molasses SIS it is
being sold in this market
A prominent dealer in molasses recently
stated that there we're very few if any hxr-
Iels of straight molasses in this market.
Every barrel is adulterated with fifty or
ssventy-fve per cent. os glucose. Glucose
IS not Injurious in s5self--in fact, some
people prefer the straight glucose to the
straight molasses-but the fraud perps-
trated on the public in aiulterating the
pure goods may be classed in the same
category with spurious butter, and
should be sold on it's merits. Consumers
know that molasses is being adulterated,
aud the consequence is that they do
not buy one-hfth as much Of it as tney
did year ago. Molasses that was selling
year ago for from forty to fifty cents
per gallon can now ba bought for twenty
cents per gallon, the css1sse being a de-
crease in consumption and lack of de-
mand, for where dealer would formerly
use five barrels Of pure goods his trade is
now satisfied with one barrel Of that edul-
fea. utcS1 o.1,p<A IL
that any injurious drugs ars used in
adulterating the przre article any more
than chicory is injurious when added to
coffee, but when sevsnty-hve per cent Of
barrel of so-called puf.e molasses is g1u-
cose, doesn't it begin to look as if the
goods were approaching adulteration
from the ouher end-i. g., glucose is being
adu1terated with moiasses?
When the mixing of glucose with uo-
lasses was first attempted, the dealers
here did all their mixing on their own
premises, and only TO an extent sufficient
TO cater to the trade requiring it, Now it
is all mixed before it reaches here. There
is no doubt, plenty OF pure molasses in
Louisiana, but as long as dealers there csn
make 1nore money out of it by using their
stocks to mix with glucose they ara not
likely to sell any of it unless at very
high price, and the trade here can not use
it at the figures wanted. The crop reports
this season have 6een enlarged by report
ing an increase Of thirty thousand bar
re:s, rhls increase being gluco.e OF.
sorghum which is added to the pure mo-
lasses and the output increased in propor-
ton.
Lihere seems TO be disposition now on
the part OF those who at t,rsG we're so anx-
lou, to get holI OF the III xad goods to re-
turn to their first love; tue smo a-pHre arti-
ce. They al. re ting tired Of the fraud.
an. unless moia;> IS gets back into it's for
m:. cs'annel strAi ght sors huns will fill the
IL sn.4"d. and ,noiasses vii! be y thing of
the past Theirs are a good many dealers
wno state that they aocid. lily prefer using
pure sorghum to nr,iasses mixed with
seventy.iive per cent. OF glucose and as
sorghum is made absolutely pure there
seems to he Il desire to use it instead OF the
moIasses as it is now being made.
OF course the reason for mixing the goods
is apparent enough to any ordinary OBJ
server. When the practice first COM
menced, mixers would take a. barrel Of or
dinary molasses worth forty cents per
gallon and mix it with q barrei of glncoss
worth twenty cents per gallon. The effect
of the glucose upon the n1olasses was to
give it q dne light color, making it appear
as a superior grade Of molasses, and it
would soil for torty-fve cents per gallon;
but as soon as other dealers found it out
snd resorred to she same practice, the profit
was reduced so last to areasonable margin
only that now there is question whether
the process is profitable at all CT not
There is, however. a reason for rnixing the |
nlolesses and glucose together, even il the |
result would only sell at thirty cents per |
forty-ceHt molasses and |
swenty-cent glucose as. the basis to work !
that is that more mixed goods can !
be sold at thirty cents than straight goods
at forty ccnts.
The manufacture Of molasses I'D to Il
pertain stage is really the manufacture Of
augar Some Of the methods of manu-
Lacture are very simple. In the simplest
form tho sugar-cane is crnshedin mo ort@r. |
The juice thus extracted is boiled in com-
non open pans. After boiling certain
length of time it becomes dark-coiored, /
'ott, viscld mass. The uncaystallized sirup
~ S~k>A S90SNs ~ PS-ooAAA5 oA@ WAS4O AAD
cloth bags and subjecting chem to pressure.
This is naolasses in crude state 1t is
'urther purified by reboiling it with an ad-
lition Of an alkaline solution and guam
fty of milk. When this has continued
Until scum 10 longer RISES it is evaporatet
md then transferred to earthen jars After
t has been left for Few days to granu-
ute. holes in the bottom of the jars are un-
topped and the molasses is drawn off into
Tessels placed to receive it.
Another process of extracting molasses
S as follows: BY various processes of
'oi)ing and straining the juice is
'rought to a state where 1t is a
OFT mass of crystals inlbeddet. i'll thick
ut unerystallizsii fluid. The separation
+. the huid l., the next process, and is
IN the curing house, so-called
his is large building with cellar which
orms the molasses reservoir. Over this
eservoir is an open frame work OF joists,
pom which stand number of empty pot
ing casks. Each of these has eight or ten
oles bored through the bottom. and in
ach hole is placed the stock of plantain
eaf The soft concrete mass Of sugar is
smoved from the coOliug-pans in which |