The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-25
COFFEE ADULTERATlOM.

tised A little molasses and flour, colored to suit, whether you are going to mix 1t with the roasted berry or the green berry, Is moulded to resemble in shape the col fee Lerry. These artificial berries l have picked out of coffee purchased in the open market. As much 20 per cent I have found to be artificial, but when mixed with the pure berries no one would notice the false ones when buying. When asked by the chairman If this was so in the ground state Dr. Wiley answered.: Both ground and roasted colored to sufs." When further questioned as to where these could be found, Dr. Wiley said in the Washington market, but that he did not know where they were made.
 pr. Wiley has given a list of imitation coffees which have been examined in the laboratory of the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture.
 They comprise the following mixtures. which were pressed or moulded into ber- ries or pellets:
 Coffee, bran, molasses.
 Wheat flour, bran and rye. Chicory peas Cor beans. and barley.
 Wheat, oats and buckwheat.
 Wheat flour and sawdust
 Hulls of legumnous seeds formed into granules with molasses and roasted
 Pea-hulls and bran.
  of Chicago, showed samples of coffee which were nothing but dead and sour beans, known to the trade as Black Jack" He testified that Brazilian coffee Is first shipped to Germany where 1t is hand-picked and the pickings are these dead, sour beans. which are not per mitted to be placed upon the German market but are shipped to the United States to be mixed with sound coffee
 -f--i- In a few barrels of the cheaper grades on almost any market he will have iit- tie trouble in picking out quite q number of faulty berries. Those who have studied the subject have known for some time that the consumption of Mocha and Java greatly exceeds the supply, but 1t will be some consultation to the lovers of good coffee to know that Dr. Wiley considers the Brazilian substitutes. when unadul- terated. equally as good and healthful as that which comes from Java and Arabia. The great wrong consists in the purchaser being deceived and charged 35 or 40 cents per pound for that which should be sold for IS or 20 cents.
 It is not necessary. however. to pro- hibit the use of such things as chicory and cereal products In coffee. If there are persons who prefer the mixture to pure coffee; but there should be a law, ana provision for It's enforcement, compelling the manufacturers or wholesalers to place upon every package (and this should. of course. aIrly to all food products that are not strictly pure) a label giving the name and proportions of each ingredient entering into the mixture, and then the customer will be able to buy pure arti- cles or mixed goods, according as he likes, and will not be compelled to pay extortionate prices for materials that are worth only few cents.
 The testimony of the senate committee on the adulteration of food products drought out the fact that many manu- facture CTS are forced to aduiterate their goodl; or go out of business. on account of the fraud and deception practiced by interruptions men. and q well-rcgulated and properly administered law would, at the same time, protect the honest manu- facturer and dealer and give to the pub lie much better and more wholesome class of foods