The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-03-15

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wlIEELING. MARCH 10, 1894.


IL 10 admitted by TINS lime tlat ONO
county should provide Tor n thorough
inspection OF cows and dairy promises
in the county aud that the city should
do the same by the product brought
here for sale.
While We are about it provision
should DO made by the city for an in
spection OF all food products. There
should ba 4 national law for the pro-
lection OF the whole country, but each
local community can do Il great deal for
its own protection. That food products
are adulterated is n fact too well cstab.
lished to be controvcrted.
Some very interesting information
on this subject has just been furnished
to the dairy and food commissioner Of
Ohio by Prof. Herman Weber, chief
chemist OF that department. lio takes
up certain adulterated commodities,
tells by whom they arc made and by
whom sold in Ohio and what they con
tain. The report is interesting because
products OF the same kind arc sold in
Wheeling and some OF them are made
here.
Cider vinegar Solid extract, O.39; ash. Dos:
Acet!c acid. +.US. and Is distilled vinegar cOlOTed
with caramel.
apple butter" Total solids. 46, 10; ac!d, L.2l:
ash. 0S5, and contains marked quantities OF
lFn .nuUfn mud tatst nNiaN
Ground pepper" Ash. 80, aud a combine
ton OF rice hullS, rice Hour, bread. cOcOGuIt
shells. %turuerlc. cayenne pepper. pepper shells,
and alive with mRggOts.
Pepper" Is n similar combination and con-
tains a little pepper.
Butter" Butter fats. II per cent; foreign
ia!s, 50 per cent, cOlOrrd with annato, and Is, In
fact. olGomargarine.
BLACK pepper" Pure. except that a few $50.
lated grains OF corn starch were discovered
under the microscope.
Vanilla" contains a marked quantity OF con.
marin and Is extract OF TonkG beans.
y travelling salesman was arrested III Clcve.
land for selling q cO:npOTnd OF nipple. glucose,
tlllCyl!C acid and Inalinc dive Tor Curraut jelly.
lie sold the same compound also for raspberry
Jelly.
II any consumer demands this sort OF
thing the law should help him to make
sure OF getting it. One whose taste
runs on this line should not DO allowed
to incur the risk OF being deceived into
buying real apple butter, real pepper,
real COW butter or real jelly. 1t requires
some talent in the consumer TO cat the
ame compound for curraat jelly and
for raspberry jelly and to be satisfied
both times, but there are persons who
lack this gilt and prefer genuine articles.
Manufacturers seek to justify them
selves by saying that they sell to dealers
what they want, and that no dealer
buys the adultorated article under the
misrepresentation that he is getting the
genuine thing. However the case may
stand as between the manufacturer and
his customers, it stands between the re.
taller and the IL in 4 way to
make it very easy to deIude the last
conner.
When n consumer asks for pepper he
takes what his grocer gives him. He
may ret pure ground pepper or he may
get a combination that contains i lit.
tie pepper" The article he gets goes
into the food and that is all he knows
about it. So through tho whole line OF
manufactured food products.
Not every nan can. determine for
himself what ne gets for his none, but
tbara ora comnatnnt marianne ,rh,. nor,