The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-09
THE POISONS WE
 GET IN OUR FOOD
Wicked and Dangerous Manifestations in Cheap
 and Unreliable Food-- Startling Facts Shown ' by Latest United States Government Tests.

you have right to expect. Here is the reasons"
 Almost Everything in Pepper. Another sample contained a large proportion Of ground corncob. As corn cob and sawdust happen to be less l nourishing than bran to an ordinary | COW. this device for making profit may turn the scale against a farmer just 1 enough to deprive him of his living. The chemist who analyses spices and peppers for the State of Connecticut found in peppers: 6andalwood, wheat. corn. linseed meal, red sawdust. sand, rice bean shells, buckwheat, dyes, olive cocoanut shells. pepper shells and plain dirt. In spices he found: Cocoanut shells, ground shells, clove stems. wheat, cornmeal, bark. sandalwood, bread, crackers, buckwheat, rice flour. hulls, turmeric, charcoal, sand. mustard
 hulls gypsum. potato flour and saw dust.
 MIX has been called the keystone to the arch of the pure food crusade. Its adulteration with water. chalk and various coloring matters is so common that when Judge Olmsted of New York threatened dealers with prison for second offenses. one dealer, declar- ing 1t impossible to buy pure milk
 from wholesalers, cancelled his permit.
 Il
 seryatives in milk a large part Of the
 infant mortality during the hot wealth CT Is attributed. Formerly boracic
 acid was used for this purpose. This has been largely superseded by solu- ton of formaldehyde, which. in It's cheaper forms, Is obtained from wood alcohol. As formaldehyde is used in embalming dead bodies Its effect upon the tender stomach of an infant may be imagined. And babies under 2
 years old feed almost wholly upon
 milk.
 In the opinion of the Dairy and Food
 Commissioner, If all the farms in Ohio had maple orchards they could not sup
 ply the alleged maple sugar and maple
 syrup consumed in that State alone. The compound which the majority of the population of the United States consumes in that name Is composed of glucose, brown cane sugar. extract of hickory bark and various other ar- ticles. -5..'s. Cheap wheat flour Is adulterated with potato starch. and there are two | mills in Ohio and one in Kansas which turn out a certain grade of Indian corn flour that is used for this purpose. Of all the canned preserves on the market probably red raspberry jam is l the most popular. Government and | State chemists. analysing several very | cheap brands of this, find them mainly | constructed of gelatine. timothy seed | and aniline dye. Lemon and other so-called fruit extracts are made from coal tar dyes. It has been said that | the consumer cannot tell the real from the false. and while 1t Is not charged | that the latter are poisonous, the con | sumer certainly Is deceived. ~.-- ! Coffee Made of HOgs' Liver. 1 Dr. Leon S. Waters, a food expert. | hac ~kaI- lrtx nf | coffee" that Is cheap and purchased in
 large quantities, is composed mainly | of bits of hogs liver mixed with chic | ory. .s- .s. l It Is on record that an Illinois food | commissioner drank a teaspoonful of | a connection in common use in coloring
 lard to make 1t look like butter, and l became so i'll that the services of two l physicians for two hours were required
 to revive him. In Indiana two cats
 were used in testing the effects of the | same coloring matter; both died.
 l The beautiful bright green of some
 brands of pickles and canned peas Is
 due to the use of sulphate of copper as l 8 coloring matter-a species of adul- iteration strongly condemned by all l sanitary authorities.
 The large increase in late years in | the use of chocolate has inspired un- | scrupulous manufacturers to place
 cheap forms on the market adulterated
 with cocoa shells. wheat four sago flour and other like substances It is
 claimed that pure chocolate Is much
 more easily digested than these com
 pounds. and so much more nutritious | that even at its greater price 1t Is false l economy to buy any other
 The cheaper the candy eaten by chil- | dren the more poisonous the colors
 used In 1t. the less pure sugar and the
 more glucose. flour, starch and other
 substances. Cheap honey" is often nothing but glucose, cane sugar and l paraff1ne.
 Butter Is made of lard.- and lard. in | It's turn, is often half alum, caustic
 lime. starch, cottonseed oil and stear. l inc The primative use of sand in
 sugar has been superseded by salts l or lead and tin, gypsum. marble dust
 rice and flour, Your tea may be half
 gypsum. china clay. soapstone, gum and
 various kinds of leaves. Even the mus l tard you use on your cold meat | IT you purchase the cheaper brands | probably Is mostly chromate and sul-
 phate of lead. flour and turmeric And | as Tor vinegar, unless you are sure of
 the maker, 1t Is likely to be com l pound of sulphuric acid, hydrochloric | acid, burnt sugar and water
 | As noted by Professor Wiley. in his
 article on this page. adulterators of l food are becoming more cautious. | Porter J. McCumier, senatorial sponsor
 for the Pure Food bill said in a re-
 gently published statement:
 l The Secretary of Agriculture some
 years ago estimated the sale of adul- | terated articles of food in the United
 States in single year at S1,175, ,0O0. 900
 or about Is per cent of our entire com 1 merce In foods. He made his esti-
 mates upon reports from the food com
 mlssloners or the several States. and
 from such other sources as he could
 command; and then, to be conservative,
 adopted but 50 per cent of what the
 total results showed. Considering the
 vast amount of misbranded and adul- | terated goods consumed which escapes J the attention of thosa enRaead in fhs