The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-06-07
Dipped in Bismarck Brown
to Give Them Their Color
THE PACKERS APOLOGIST
Thomas 3. Wilson, Manager for the
Nelson Morris Company, Enters
General Denial--0bjects
to Dating Labels.

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Washington, June Z. The beautiful
coloring Of sausage Is due to the fact
that castings are dipped Iii d solution
called Bismarck brown. IL is MI ami,
line dye. Otherwise dye stuifs are not
used in neat packing, according to
Thomas u. Wilson, manager for The
Nelson Morris Co., who appeared before
The acricultura. committee of the House
yesterday representing the great pack
ing houses Of Chicago, Hammond, kan
| sas City and elsewhere.
Mr.. Wilson, who professed intimate
| knowledge Of packing house conditions
| from personal observation, made d leng-
/ thy statement, in which he sought 10
minimize the Neil Reynolds report, and
denied various stories iii print as TO
] packing house abuses Mr.. Wilson also
| gave m exposition Of packing methods.
| Questioned closely as to the use Of pres
lcryatiyes, he denied there were any in
canned meat stuffs, except in some cases
| where part Of the ingredients had been
| dry citrd
He admitted that canned sausage con.
tanned borax, but said not enough TO
do injury. Some meats, such as beet
and pork trimmings, we've preserved with
| saltpetre and 4 little borax These two
worked into sausage. III effect Mfr Will
son admitted sausage had Bismarck
brown on the outside and meat plus
| saltpetFe and hprax within. ~
England Gets Worst Of It.
In some instances boTnx ii used in
/ preparing tripe, Mr.. Wilson said, but
this goes to England. 1t is not used
lin curing hams. For this purpose salt
petre, salt aud sugar nre used. Hams
shipped abroad are sprinkled with boz
i rax
Mr.. Wilson specifically denied that a
solution of boraN il injected into hams
to cure them. ht the same time, Mr..
Wilson said, the packers objected To
provision in the law TO prohibit the
use Of preseryativeS, since this would
| shut off saltpetfe, which was ncces-
sity in curing hams. Moreover, he de.
clared, the best salt contains borax.
| An entertaining part Of Mr. Wilson's
testimony related TO alleged ~reprpcess
ing Of canned meats. 8le explained
/ that when cans Of meat become diseoI-
ored they were relabelled.
This reiuvenating related, he said,
only to the exteriprsof the can, and there
was no sreproeesSing' of the contents,
as the NeilI Reynolds report Indicated.
/ Commissioned Ncili, whof was present
was called To state what he, knew OF
reprocessing,n lie said be had been
! told by the floor superintendent Of one
Of the plants and the employees in
charge OF the work OF reiuyenatiRg cans
that the cans were put through heat
ing process ut low temperate to .'liycn
| up the meat
Meat Good for Years.
Mr.. Wilson complained that good
can Of meat remained good for Years,
so long as the air did not reach the
meat.
Mr.. Wilson objected 10 tile date of
inspection being placed on the inspection
label, either on meat or meat products,
since it might give the impression in
some cases that the goods were too
old to be tit for use. Use OF formal
deiyde and salicylic acid, except III fer
tlizer, was vigorously denied. Much
oil the testimony was on the use Of con.
Idemned animals. Mr.. Wilson said the
packing houses did not kill an animal
condemned in the anteniorsem inspec-
tion. An animal so condemned was
turned over 10 the, STANDARD slaughter
ing companylin Chicago. Jt was killed
and given post-mortemf inspection by
government inspectors. If fit for food
| 1t was allowed to pass, otherwise ii
went for fertilizer
1t was clearly brought out that an
animals carcass having tubercular lie.
sions, II they were local, or other To-
Called affections, was not condemned.
In response TO questions as TO what be-
came of hogs reaching the packing yards
dead on nearly dead with cholera, Mr..
Wilson said that in Chicago they went
TO the Standard rendering company to
make into soap and for other manu-.
featuring purposes. lie denied they
went into lard.
Chicago, June Building Commits
sioner Bartzcn and twelve deputy build
ing inspectors went to the stock yards
yesterday TO make an inspection Of ev-
cry building in the place.
| The commissioner declared before he
left the City Hall that he would compel