Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-07-12

I'VE SuOhe anu uOC Will inc DOIIleu
article.
Fresh looking hamburger has faded
to dark brown.
Cottonseed oil must walk alone-not
as pure olive.
Mushrooms epicures will no longer
discover can contains pieces and
stems" after, but before opening.
Preservatives such as "Freezeine"
have been generally used in sausage
and hamburger. Not in quaint
ties that were at all injurious, but
the law takes no cognizance of quanti-
ty, fact that will cause the grocers
immeasurably grief before the year is
over.
Grandmother smoked the ham and
bacon, but the modern packer gets
his smoke from bottle, so clever the
moderns cannot tell the difference.
And now the bottle of smoke is to drop
out of sight and bring back the good
old chimney smoke.
Importers Hard Hit.
The fact that the law takes no cog
nizance of the quantity of poison in
food, but only of its presence, is the
oho6 GudI uoS Sdu6aI luC III ClSu
goods. Msraschino cherries, red
white and blue, must disappear These
things are bleached and practically
dyed to suit the fancy of the consumer
The epicure who formerly carried
home an expensive can Of mushrooms
with foreign wording and the clerks
best wishes will be surprised today to
find the cheaper grades labeled
stems and pieces" a fact formerly
learned by opening the can.
French Peas Affected.
One of the most important articles
affected is French peas. The new law
will be boon to Iowa farmers, where
good peas are grown. The foreign
pea has been used for years, bearing
the label, "artifcially colored" Now
they must change their tactics and
send an uncolored pea here-or none
1t does rot matter that the coloring
matter has no dangerous effect on
the communicable coloring Is of a
poisonous nature and the quantity
matters not. All the grocers welcome
this change, with the possible excep-
ton of a few whose evident interest
lies in the other quarter. The sale
of olive oil will be but little affected
The best brands are pure and the i'm
itations have been gradually changing
to label that will permit the sale of
their goods. Cottonseed oil must be
marked as such and salad dressing
must bear a label stating the nature
of the contents.
Canned Vegetables.
The general practice of adding SUI
gar to peas, corn and tomatoes must
be stated in the future and sacharine
must be eliminated.
Nearly all tomatoes are now colored.
But from today they will begin to look
sick. Canned soups, catsups, sauces
and preserves must use no coloring
matter deleterious to health thus cut
ting out cochineal, the time honored
aid of the pure fruit" man.
Olives. must be put up naturally.
Only the smaller poor grades are col.
ored, but this is to be stopped.
| Powdered Sugar Must be Sweet.
But the old Joke of corn starch SUI.
gar will go out of existence, for sugar
must now be at least sweet.
Just what solution the grocers will
find for the old gag about Mocha and
Java for 25 cents pound it is difficult
to say. But new name must be
used or statistics juggled to correspond
to the enormous amount of Java now
supposed to be grown on little ter.
ritory not big enough to support in
storehouses all the coffee supposed to
be grown there.
The old offer of $1,000 for alum
found in certain baking powder is
proved to have been made by an ex
cellent poker player for the concern
now prints "soda alum" on the cans
according to law.