The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-11-19
FOOD ADULTfRATfD
Chemist Who Allotted the
AvariCiouS Manufacturers
SOLD HIMSELF Tor THIRTY YEARS
Now Confesses to Horrible Oecoctions
Created by Him Which Promote
Disease and Poison System.
SOLD HIMSELF Tor THIRTY YEARS

| SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Nov. 19.-With
the declaration that his conscience has
been torturing him, Duke H. Bash
ford, a chemist, author of thirty one
books, who has been engaged thirty
years in assisting manufacturers to
| adulterate food, made a public con-
fession of the shameful taking of food
which he has participated in or known
! about.
1T has. been all but demonstrated
that any food product can be made
artificially," Mr.. Bashford says, land
have superintendent the manufacture
! of butter without cream, milk Withaut
| the aid of the COW, beer without bar
| ley or hops, whisky without the usual
process of distillation, sugar from
waste paper and rags, preserves and
| jam from corn, f1avOring extracts from
coal-tar products, mustard from tu-
meric, pepper from cocoa shells, vine
gar for 10 cents a barrel from sulphuric
| acid, tomato catsup from starch, color
! and flavor, hOreradsh from starch
or honey in comb from glucose and
acids, jams of all kinds by combining
glucose and acids, olive oil from cot
ton seed, and many others.
Breeds Disease.
Il can prove to any intelligent per-
son that 80 per cent of the diseases
of this country, and especially the new
diseases, are caused by the adultera-
ton Of food products. My earnings
have been many thousands a year,
teaching manufacturers with credit
and reputation above par the art of
cheapening their goods and poisoning
their fellow-men. 1 want now to un-
do as much as possible of what have
done, to expose the secrets of the adul-
terating manufacturer.
Butter can be made at a cost Of
5 cents a pound by soaking a calves
rennet in diluted alcohol, straining,
mixing the fluid with dry bread, dry
ing, grinding into powder and using
as much Of the powder as would cover
a dime with a pint of fresh milk and
a pound of butter. Butter color, such
as is used by many dairies, is made
by boiling orange colored aniline in
cotton-seed oil for four hours and Ill
tering through paper. This aniline is
highly poisonous, containing arsenic,
and is unfit for domestic use.
AN imitation cream that is really
wholesome can be made by using
half gallon Of fresh milk, an ounce Of
corn starch and one egg, the starch
should be mixed with a little water
and a tablespoonful Of sugar; the egg
should be beaten and all mixed we'll.
A few years ago a man travelled from
Maine to California selling bogus
milk recipe for $3.50. 1t was as fol-
lows: Carbonate of soda, fourth
| ounce; fresh milk, one quart; sugar
| one pound; caramel, ten drops; sugar
of milk one ounce; dissolve the soda
| in water mix and evaporate to the
| consistency Of cream; finish evapora-
| ton in an oven till the mass becomes
! dry powder; one ounce of powder with
a pint of water makes f1rst-class milk
Many cases of so-called ptomaine
poisoning are caused in reality by the
Tactic or butyric acid in milk attack
ing lead in vessels in which the milk
has been placed, forming lactate or ac-
itate of lead, both frightful poisons.
Syrup From Paper and Rags.
Some people are skeptical about
syrup being made from waste paper
or rags. They should try it with this
formula: Shreds of paper or linen,
twelve parts; sulphuric acid, seventeen
parts: mix in cool place; in twenty
four hours dilute this mixture with 100
parts Of water, boil for ten hours neu-
| tralize with chalk and set aside to
chrystallize. Sawdust glue, etc. yield
sugar by this treatment.
| Glucose, made by boiling corn
starch in per cent solution Of sui
phuric acid and neutralizing with an
| alkali, is not nearly so sweet as cane
syrup. So the manufacturer Of sugar
drips, honey syrup, fruit Of cane, New
! Orleans molasses, golden syrup, etc,
| uses one part Of saccharine for each
1000 parts Of glucose. This saccharine
is made by boiling benzoic acid in di-
luted sulphuric acid and then treating
it with bicarbonate Of soda This is
| from 500 to 500 times as sweet as the
best cane sugar.
| Maple and Honey Frauds
| Il have sold about 200 formulas to
| the owners Of maple sugar camps for
making maple syrup with as little ma
pie as possible. There is practically
no maple sugar sold. because Of it's
great scarcity. The following formula
is one commonly used by manufact-
urers of syrups sold as pure maple;