The Forrest City times., 1892-10-07
Wholesomsness os Canned Goods

WnOieSOm 0neSS Ot Sanpoo 6cOOos American Grocer.
 Although there is but little danger of cholera at this time resulting from the eating of any kind of food, the American Druggist calls attention to the wholesomeness of canned goods as appropriate food If cholera should ob- tain foothold in this country. The druggist says:
 Rolling kills all'cholera germs and hence it is well, during a cholera el l. demic, to uss boiled water and boiled milk. Canned goods are also safe diet at such time, if,used at once on open ing, owing to the boiling that they re- packed, which effectually sterilizes the contents"
 There is also the additional fact that canned goods are dramatically sealed while fresh at the sources of supply, and it is impossible for their condition 70 change afterward until they are opened for use.
 Vegetables, canned fresh from the garden; fruits, from the tree; fish, from the water, or meats from the re- frig0ratOrs in connection with the abattoirs at the West must msnifestly be wholesome if eaten within a req sonoble time after opening the tins.
 Indeed, we have always c0ntended that canned goods were, for the above reason, fresher. more wholesome and more palatable than the so-called "fpesh" articles not canned, which are exposed for considerable periods of time in city markets and which have often lost the freshness, sweetness aud flavor possessed by the goods when ''fresh.n
 The old. fashioned idea that canned goods were unwholesome ou account of the tin in which they were packed, or lead from the soldering, is now pretty effectually dissipated. There WAS time when every case of ice cream, cheese or spoiled meat pOison- ing which manifested itself in the shape of cholera mOrbus-but which is now called '.ptomaine poisOning"- was laid at the door of canned goods; but this is so no longer.
 There are many consumers, however, who do not know that a table can be completely and toOthsomely furnished with canned goods in the way of soups, Ash, vegetables, meat and fruits.
 Of canned soups there are some fif- teen different varieties packed by as many different reliable factories, among which are: Chicken, green tur- tie, terrapin, gumbO, mulligatawny, bouillon, pirntannier, pea, mock turtle, OK tail, cOnsomme, tomato, beef, juli- enne, clam broth.
 Of fish there are: Oysters, clans, mackeral, salmon.
 Of vegetables the leading varieties are: Asparagus beans, corn, peas, suc- cotash, tomatoes.
 Of meats there are: Roast beef, corned beef, bOned turkey, boned chicken, oxtongues potted, meats and dsviled meats in endless variety.
 Of fruits there are: Apricots, apples. peaches, pears, plums pineapples ber- ries. etc, in great variety.
 GsDscers would do we'll to call the at- tention of customers to the wholesome ness of canned goods at this time when public attention is attracted to the possibility of visitation of cholera, although it is probable that if cholera should obtain fOOthOld in this c0un- try it would not prove any more dan gerous than it has in France and Spain, where it has prevailed more or less for several years, and where the ordinary diseases such as levers, diptheria and cOnsumptio1r'h have numbered ten vic rims where cholera claimed one.
 It is only where reasonable care in eating. drinking and sanitary arrange ments is net exercised that the cholera is dangerous.