The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-05-16
Agriculture
and
Orticulture

The following news will be read with
pleasure by all who are interested in
agriculture and horticulture, two great
Pacific Coast interests:
BOGUS FRUIT JUICES.
Riverside Press: The New York Leg
islature has just passed a most strin-
gent law against bogus fruit juices,
which is of marked interest to Callfor-
mia fruit-growers. The Act, which has
been approved by Governor Roosevelt,
is as follows: ANY person who snail
knowingly sell, offer or expose for sale,
or give away, any compound or prepar-
alton composed in whole or in part OF
any unwholesofne, deleterious or pols-
onous acid, or other other unWholesome,
deleterious or poisonous substance, as a
substitute for the pure, unadulterateo
and unfermented Juice of lemons, lines,
oranges, currants, grapes, apples,
peaches, plums, pears, berries, ounces
or other natural fruits, representing
such compound or preparation to be the
pure unadulterated and unfermenteo
Juice of any of such fruits; or who, IN
the mixing, decoction or preparation OF
food or drink shall knowingly use any
such compound or preparation In the
place Of or as a substitute for, the
pure. unadulterated and unfermented
Juice of one or more of such fruits, snail
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon
conviction. shall be punished by fne
| of not more than $3.50, or by imprlson-
ment for not more than six months or
by both such fine and imprisonment.
! 1t is we'll known that in soda fount-
aims. and in various food and drink pre-
parations all sorts of stuff is served up
under the name of pure fruit juices, and
many of the compounds not only are
untrue to name, but they are composed
of chemicals injurious to health 1t is
obviously in the interest of the pubic
health and incidentally highly import
ant to the people who produce frult
that these alleged fruit products should
be6shut out of the markets.
When one buys lemon juice he wants
lemon juice and not some cheap ano
hurtful preparation of some ac1o
favored to initiate lemon; and when he
buys apple jelly he wants some guar
antee that he is getting the genuine
article and not some concoction of doc
tored gelatine This New York law II
| enforced will make the manufacture OF
these bogus compounds unsafe and I'M
profitable; and the fruit-growers Will
rise up and call the New York Legisla-
ture and it's level-headed young Gov
ernor blessed.
STUFFED DATES.
| San Bernardino Sun: Years ago a
| friend of Miss Catherine Denny brought
| from India the recipe for stuffed dates
prepared for the Rajah of the city
where. she had resided The recipe was
often used by the family, and Miss
Denny, at her mothers suggestion, con-
| cluded to sell some of the dainty con-
| lection. She went to wholesaler who
had been inquiring for just such sweet
meats. He proposed that she supply
him with dates stuffed with English
walnuts, and gave her Immediately all
| the work she could do-in fact, more
| than she could do alone.
The little building was fitted up and
| the work done on large scale. There
are in the house three rooms in which
now work the seeders, suffers and
/ packers. The dates, which come in large
boxes, are unpacked, the seeds removed
and in the ''stuffing room a quarter OF