Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1886-07-23
Glucose.

ANCAO W OOZuS OOhCS Stu
cose. # is used in this country to
fearful extent in the adulteration o.
food products. Its use is as q sub
stitute for pure cane sugar. Il i:
difficult to purchase pure cane SYRUP
in the markets of the country, yei
the counterfeit and adulterated arti
Gle is almost invariably sold for the
genuine which 1t proposes to repre-
sent.
The article below was written for
the American Cultivator by Ben
Perley Poore:
''Glucose is another one of the
frauds of our day, and it is perhaps
as injurious to health. as butterine.
1t is manufactured from Indian corn,
and a pound of corn starch, whether
deriving its carbon from old rags,
corn, potatoes, or what not, can read
lily be converted into pound of glu-
cose or grape sugar. Since it con-
tains about thirty per cent of liquid
saccharlne, it IS presumed to be
worth for certain uses about one
third as much as cane sugar. 1t is
extensively used in adulterating the
syrups made from sugar cane. Can
dies and honey are so adulterated
that one expects an impure article
whenever purchase of either is
made unless the manufacturer has a
good name. 1t is believed tc enter
largely into the great majority of the
sugars on the market. All liquors
requiring sweets in their manafac-
ture are believed to be sweetened
with glucose. Even beer and cheap
wines are not free from it. So COM
mon has the use of it become, that
one who is anxious to avoid all its
baneful effects on the system will
have a difficult task to arrange bill
of fare and u list of drinks free from
the contaminatiHg influence of glu-
cose. 1t is fraud in itself, and
readily assimllates with fraudulent
productions. Even the manufacture
ers seem to be conscious that they
are engaged in foisting an evil on
the public.
There is great secrecy enforced
among the men employed about the
factories. There is mystery about
it that speaks of ways that are dark
and aims that do not regard public
good. The manufacture of it must
be profitable, or there would not be
so many factories springing up. The
authorities at Washington have shown
that corn has valuable saccharine
qualities in paying quantities. 1t
has also shown that n pound of corn
sugar is not worth more than one
third of pound of cane sugar for
sweetenlng purposes.
That glucose is an ulwholesome
villanous thing to enter the human
stomach is well known, and it is an
outrage that one cannot crafty his
love of sweets without great risk of
permanent injury to his best friend,
his stomach.
If any of the glucose manufactur-
ers can tell the public how they are
giving us a quid pro quo for the 81
900, 900 bushels of corn they last
year so stealthily converted into glu-
cose. we shall be happy to hear from
them. The fraudulent use of this
article has become so common that
even the amateurs in apiarles are
suspected of adulterating the honey
they offer their friends and the pub
lie. 1t is not much used there, but
the light colored syrups that please
the eye and disappolnt the palate are
largely adulterated with glucose and
are unfit for humao food. Rural
World.
At Yaqui Bay, Oregon, the fishing
is done by Indians in canoes. They
fish in about one hundred and twen-
ty-fvs feet of water mile and a
half or so from the shore. They use
"a r Al.