Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01
Hoods
The standard bloOd-purifying medicine.
In usual liquid or new tablet form.
SarsapariIIa

an unduly high price for an article of
inferior value in that its sweetening
power is comparatively low. Maple
syrup that comes from the producers is
very likely to be pure, but when it gets
into the hands of the jobbers and bot
tlers-beware! A report from the
laboratory of the State Board of Health
of New Hampshire last year was to the
effect that only two out of forty SAM
pies of sO-called maple syrup We're
pure. Here again, the cheaper glucose
syrup with sometimes an artificial
flavor makes a small stock of maple
syrup or maple sugar go Il long ways.
Honey-Comb honey may be bought
without fear Of adulteration. EN-
tracted or strained honey is generally
something else. \ piece of comb
floating in extracted honey stamps it
pretty surely as a fraud. A few years
ago, commercial glucose was worth one
cent a pound wholesale, while pure
honey was worth seven or eight cents.
One of the adulteratOrs admitted that
he mixed the two. one part of honey
and seven of glucose. No wonder that
this vile business has driven some of
the bee-mcn east and west almost to
bankruptcy. Here, as with other
authorizations which are SIMILAR frauds.
the duty of the government is simply
the prevention of miSbranding so that
he who wishes such mixtures or blends
may have them under their true names,
and presumably at price which is not
cXorbitant.
Olive Oil-It has been stated that
thousands of tons Of cotton seed oil are
shipped to France, Italy and Spain, and
that much of it comes back to us as
pure olive OIL Olive oil from Europe
receives from some of the bottlcrs in
this country its first Cor maybe SeconD
dosage of cotton seed oil and goes out
under false and sometimes forged
labels as pure olive oil. Some of the
honest producers in Italy have justly
complained; it has been ruinOus to the
olive growers of California: and the
consumers have been cheated.
Condensed Milk-The leading manu-
facturers Of condensed milk conduct
the business with great care. Never
theless. the product of the smaller
concerns which label their output with
fictitious names is often adultcrated
and worse than worthless for some pur-
poses. particularly when it is used as
food for infants i'll poorer families. The
result is sometimes starvation instead
of nOuriShinent for these babies.
Cheese one of the frauds
which was prcpetrated on a large scale
in some of the states in this country
cheese" 1t was manufactured from
nd 1l,nn nd J,n 1,r,f
ter IA. was replaced with lard and
other cheaper fats. A special Congress
sional act passed few years ago APP
pears to have stopped this discrcdit-
al lie business.
Tomato Catsup. etc.-These. made as
their labels say from selected ripe
tomatoes are in reality largely made
up from the cores and skin of tomatoes
which have otherwise been used in the
cannerics This waste matter is
cooked, strained. and colored red with
a cold tar dye and preserved with
salcylic acid. Canned fruits generally
are probably all right unless question:
able preservatives are used. One Bal
timOre firm, however. the American
Grocer states. was canning sour, green,
STATED the free use of paint or color
ing matter. The North Dakota tx
pertinent station found similar tomato
"swill'' which had been put up in two
of our Atlantic States.
Preservativcs.-1hc question of the
use of prcservatives is broad one
1t should be viewed in judicial and
conservative spirit. that any leSiti-
mate lines of industry may not be in
jurod. When, however. there are rea-
sOnable grounds for believing that any
Of the chemical agents used for the
preservation or cOlOrinS of foods may
prove detrimental to the users of the
food products containing them, the
public health should be safeguardcd by
correct labelling, or prescription of
maximum permissible quantity of
these chemicals, or absolute prohi-
bition of use. depending upon the ma
ture of the article under consideration.
Further experimental study of some of