The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-05-10


tainly would call a halt through the
Health Department of the city ON the
nefarious practice of using fruit boxes
over and over again. All kinds of
fresh. fruit are. perfshable, which means,
subject to decay, and in a very short
time the smallest amount of the fruit
or juice left in a package-especiaily
after the package has contained the
fruit until decay beginsgoes on decay
ing with the regular decomposition
caused by germs AS every intelligent
person understands, all germs which
enter into vegetable decomposition are
very poisonous when taken into the
stomach with food, hence the extreme
necessity of using all vegetables in the
cleanest, purest, freshest state. 1t is
not necessary to call attention to the
DID, blackened, widowed, fungoid con-
dition of the ordinary fruit package es-
pecially the berry boxes, in which we
buy our fruit in the city of Los Ange-
les This condition in each box repre-
SCENTS millions upon millions of deadly
germs and toxines or ptomaines, which
latter are the chemical resultsof decom-
position.
The secondhand use of these pack
|
| part of the packer, as the new boxes
cost from $3.50 to So per thousand,
While they can be bought for 70 cents
per thousand from a Chinaman who is
IN the business of gathering them up
I am told, ON good authority. that the
sole occupation of numerous Cinnamon
and Others. is to scour the back yards
OF hotels, restaurants, trash piles, gar
no,
any and all old places where a berry
hox has been deposited, to gather them
FOR the trade, and have NO doubt of the
truth OF the above statement. Now,
think of it for a minute Typhoid fe-
yer, various bowel disorders, indiges-
| tion and a score of other troubles fol-
poisonous boxes Nearly all of the
larger cities prohibit, by strictly en-
forced ordinances. the use of the fruit
packages more than once
THE USES OF BUTTERMILK.
Amador Dispatch: The growing prac-
tice of utilizing the waste products Of
all manufactures has brought out the
fact that butterrnilk possesses many
unsupported qualities. A medical pa
per says its reputation as an agent of
superior digestibility has become firm
~ established. 1t is, indeed, a true
milk peptone; that is, milk already di-
gested, the coagulation of the coagula-
bic portion being loose and faky and
not Of that firm, indigestible nature
which is the result of the gastric Juice
upon the cows milk. 1t is of great
value in the treatment of typhoid fe-
Yer, and, being a laxative, it may be
turned to advantage in the treatment
of habitual constipation 1t is no less
valuable in kidney troubles, from its
d1urectic qualities. 1t is in great re-
quest for the treatment of diabetes
either alone or alternately with skim
milk, and in case of gastric ulcer and
cancer of the stomach it can often be
retained when no other food can.
Chemical analysis shows that in it's
nature it greatly resembles koumiss.
with the exception of which it is the
most grateful, refreshing and digesti-
BILE of the products of milk.
GRAIN IS REvIvING.
Modesto News: The cool winds and
dews at night are having the effect Of
reviving the growing grain considera-
bly,, and it is now the belief of many
that the crops will yield larger than
was the estimate of a week or more
ago. even should there be no more rain
before harvest. Others contend at this
season of the year the top roots go
| down to moist land to take up the
moisture in the lower strata of earth
near the hard-pan. Whatever may be
/ the cause the grain is reviving very
! perceptibly and in many sections it will
be plump where it was feared it would
/ show the effects of the lack of rain.
/ These causes will increase the product
| per acre at least two sacks which will
1 be quite an item. This is the season
when the trade winds set in, so there
/ is practically no further anticipation of
/ the injurious north winds.
A NURSERY CONTRACT.
California Fruit Grower: Eight years
ago a Western nurseryman was award
ed a contract to set out a large num-
Der of trees along the streets of Gar
den City, Kas., upon the understand
ing that he was to be paid for such
! of them as might be found to be
growing and thrifty. at the end of two
| years The two years rolled around
and the contractor called for an in
spection and counting of the saplings
Under the advice of the City Attorney
the municipal authorities refused
/ either to conduct the inspection or to
pay for the trees, claiming that the
whole contract was illegal. The mus
eryman carried his case to court, and
was recently awarded a verdict for
! $50, 133, representing the contract price
| of every tree which on his own testi-
mony was in good condition at the
| stimulated time
HANFORDS CANNERY.
Hanford Journal: On visit to the
cannery the middle of the week we
| found Superintendent Van. Eaton busy
with a force of men removing one OF
| the boilers and getting ready to put
in new one The cannery will COM
nence operations about the middle OF
this month About 400 women will be
employed this year. Over sixty cot
tages that have been built during the
past two years are all rented with a
demand for more. Many of the camp
ers- that will find employment are al
ready moving in.