The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-05-26
REFUSE AS FOOD,
Waste From Canning Factor
les Made Into Jelly.
Hog Liver Dried and Ground and
Sold as Coffee Bones
Mixed With Flour.

necessary for the employees ito re-
move the peels and cores Of the va
rious fruits and also all the .decom-
posed and worm-eaten spots, writes
Paul Pierce in Public Opinion. These
peels and cores and worm-eaten spots
worms included together with
all the spoiled fruit of apples, pears,
peaches and every other kind, are
dumped together and made into a
general pulp. From this pulp, made
of the refuse of all kinds of fruits, is
turned out a marvellous variety of
different brands of highly-colored
and tempting looking bottled and
canned goods. From this same pulp
conglomeration is made pure ap-
pie jelly" pure currant jelly" al
legged plum and ounce jellies and
jams, apple butter and no end Of
different kinds of preserves and pie
material. 1t makes little different
as to the appearance and taste of the
pulp or principal ingredient. The
havorings and chemicals will make
up for all former deficiencies in az
pearance or lack Of resemblance to
the fruit it is supposed to repre-
sent.
mention fruits just by way of t.
lustration; the same conditions ale
true in the manufacture Of foods Of
all others classes. The residue is
always made into marketable adul-
terations, if not by the factory
that turns out high-class brand, then
by an associate factor. given anott-
or name of actual manufacturer.
Some Of the big packing house col
laborate with Iower-grade houses,
supposedly run by other fms, that
utilize all the stock rejected by tie
big firms, and market all inferior
products cast off by the firms that
are 50 cautions Of their reputation.
WORKOUT horses and Inules ard
those cripple or otherwise injured so
As to incapacitate them for service
as beast of burden have been butch
cred and the meat served in reStau-
rants and on free lunch counters
asroast beef. corned E.beef, beef
stew. etc. Hoofs Of horses and cat
tie are used not alone for tie
manufacture of CLUES and mucilage
but often from making a viscous
substance, which. it is claimed, is
used in the manufacture of the low
er grades Of gelatine' and jellieS. An
enormous amount Of cheap jelly is
made in Chicago from souseG pigs
feet and other meats glucose ard
fruitrefuse chemically treated and
given names Of different fruits. DR..
Leon S. Waters, expert in food
chemistry, recently said that hogs
livers were dried, baked, powdered
and mixed with chicory and coffee es-
sence and sold as good coffee.
But even the residue Of the factories
is not sufficient to appease the SEEM
ing hunger for the lower grade foods.
1t is fact that pick-ups from the
city streets. the cast-otf products
from big commission houses and the
gleanings from the sewer are often
employed in produce manufacture
under Americas system of com
mercial economy" Even seaweeds
are brought into use to supply the de-
.mand. From sea moss is made a
gelatinous substance known as aga
aga. Mixed with a amount Of pulp
from cast-away fruit, little starch
and gelatine, it is dyed and favored
to resemble different kinds of fruit
products and is labeled strawberry,
cranberry, raspberry, apple, ounce.
etc. Old bones from the alleys are
groundin to dust, which is utilized
principally as fertilizer, but some
times is mixed with -four. 1t has been
claimed that leather from old boots
and shoes gathered from the streets
and scrap piles is chemically treated,
mixed with chicory, ground, and
made into a clever imitation of
coffee, the kind that is usually drank
by sailors and workmen in the log J
ging camps. More ard more is it be-
coming 50 that nearly everything
thrown into the streets and alleys of
American cities is turned into
food.
Foods made from these loathsome