The San Francisco call., 1897-11-19
Need for the establishment
of a State inspection
Bureau.
CONDEMNED FOODS SOLD
IN THE COUNTRY.
Committees Nam I'd by he Presi-
dent of the FruIt-GroWer5'
Convention.
Special Dispatch o TuE CALL

SACRAMENTO. Nov 1S.-The Storm
of yesterday left no wreckage along the
shore, and This morning when the Fruit
Growers Convention convened everything
was calm and serene.
The morning routine OF business was
transacted quietly, and the question OF
the olive industry was thoroughly dis
cussed. The afternoon session was de-
voted to aduIterated foods and their iatlu-
ence on the productive industries OF the
State.
Milk Inspector Dockery of San Fran
cisco appeared before the convention and
urged upon the fruit-growers the ne
cessily of the State taking up the question
OF pure food and enac.ing such measures
as would protect the entire State.
AT this time" said Mr.. Dockery, I'VE
are carrying on crusade in San Fran
C SEQ against the adulteration of food, and
as fast as We secure condemnation of food
products they are Immediately sent into
the interior and dispcSed of"
In answer to a question by Senator
Langford Mr. DdckPrv declared that under
the present law the Health Department OF
San Francisco had no authority to de-
stroy impure food prod ucts, and il was for
that reason that he advocated the esta b.
lishmen: of q State bureau OF food inspec-
tion.
The paper of President Cooper foe
quite discussion. occa,ioned by a suDse-
ouent paper by Professor WenzalI VINO
claimed that cottonseed oil, which was
sold in immense quantities in the place of
olive oil, was, from its organic qualities
necessarily injurious TO health. Pres idenI
Cooper said:
The published estimate OF the number of
oilye trees now growing IS 300, 600. The
mum Der OF pounds .hata Well-grown tree will
produce under favorable conditions is 20U
Assuming that the trees viii bear only IN
alternate years, snd'alloV1ug ior deficiencies
from rious causes 20 per cent, we will then
have $50 U00 600 ounds. Half OF this prod
duct 10 pc picked ana dried would amount to
100000 barrels OF so gallons eacn-6000 car
los =. The rest, made into oil, Won give
100000 cases OF II bottles each-20O0 car
loads
The greatest drawback to the sale of olive
. oil IS The adu .terauouS and substigutions put
on the market with fraudulent labels and
fraudulent statements The extent Of olive
oil adulteTation i gteater than that OF any
other food product excepting Vinegar. There
IS cottou-Seed oil combination almost rs
attacked in any one OF the foods we must eX-
pect that al VIII JOIN 10 defend.
y great Oea1 OF tne sO-Calleu owe OIL or
salau oil, or Lucca oil. Is pure cotton-Seed OIL.
Il Is dangerous lo0d and should not be taken
into the stomach.
II is drying oil, gum ming and indigestibc
A portion of it will not digest 1t will not
burn. To throw ii out of the system is q
great Tax. Il tends 10 all sorts of kidney
uonbles. apop.eXy and heart failure.
CottOnseed oil dates back not more than
forty-1ve years II has never been tested as n
food. II has been introduced solely by the
ingenuity OF scoundrels who conceived the
idea OF aduIteraung and substituting IT for
oilNe OH and cheating consumers so as TO make
large profits by this fraudulent business.
To adjust the difference Of opinion Su-
preme Court Commissioner General Chip.
man offered resolution requesting 4 sub
mission OF the question To the hortlcul-
tural department OF the University of
Cahfornia. This seemed q salts actory
way out OF the controversy. and the con-
ventlon took a recess until 7:30.
The evening session was devotei to the
answering Ques uons found in the query
box and discus ion by a. 2. Hayne upon
the phvlOXera, which s so dread an
enemy TO the vineyards Of California.
Just before the conven ion adjourned
for the evening President Cooper app oint-
ed the following Committees:
Committee OF three mem bers to con-
slider the advisabiity of having written a
story 10 comprise every phase of the fruit
problem and have the same pu rolls he'd and
sold at price not 10 exceed % cents: Dr.
!. S, Eshelman, FIR sno; R. ID. Stephens,
Sacramento; T. S. Doel, Fresno.
Committee OF fifty TO raise fund OF
$40 600 for the purpose of advertising Cali
1ornia products in European markets: r.
d. Stephens, chairman; B. +. Langford,
Stockton; A. ock, Santa Clara; Dwight
HoIister. Court!and; William johnson.
Courtland; F. NJ. Rignier, Camp
bell; S. w. Marshall, Fresno; Robert
Gurus, San Bernariino; J. A. FIlcher,
San Francisco; Ed NJ. Ehrhorn, Mountain
View; John Markeley, Sonoma; |. S
Eshelman, Fresno; Alexander Gordon,
Fresno; John Dore, FreJno; l. H.
Tnomas, Nlsalia; Ben Maddux, Visalia
Frank A klmball, National CITY; r. II.
Hewitt, Los Angeles; G. T. Griffith. Los
Angeles; + ank WigI ins. Los Angeles !;
Matthew Blanchard, Santa Paula; h. X.
Snow, Tusun; E S. Shelf cid, Santa Ba .
6ara; r. f Jacks, San Luis Obispo; E.
". Ho me-. Riverside; T. E.
oroSiily; /. oo1V' W. + Fose. T. oroTtIis; GIny' :;
General y. P. Chapman, Red Bluff: Marx
McDonaId, Santa Rosa; Luther Burbank,
Santa Rosa; leonard Coates, Nspa
Alfred Ho man, San Francisco: james
". Kerr, San Franeisco; John Rock,
Niles; Fred G. Miles, prnryn; J. f. Mad
den, Newcastle; Frank II. Buck, Vaca.
vile; w. B. Parker. Vacavil e; r. r..
Blowers, Woodland; George Wol,ey. lone :;
B. NJ. Lelong, Sacramento; G. W. Childs
San Jose; \. ". Jucd. Waisonvllie; H
Z. Staber, Yuba City; Edward Berwick.
Monterey; a. ?. Han Penryn; A. d.
Cuts, Live 0aE, Butte County
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