The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1908-11-23

| Continued from Page One.
tary,R said DR.. Ladd. saThe effect Of
bleached -four extract on lower ami
mails is not everything in this case.
! maintain that bleaching has a harm
full effect on the flour itself. and
| changes its various constituents ma
| terially.e
| I'VE won't pass on. that matter
now" said the secretary. There are
other witnesses to be examined, and
We had better proceed with them.''
| DIR. Ladd closed the case for the OPP
ponents of bleaching and 1t is believed
the hearing will be closed today with
testimony of government chemists.
who made investigations of bleached
-four for the department, and for the
guidance of the PURE food board I'm
reaching conclusion as to whether
bleaching is a, violation OF the pure
food law.
Ladd Attacks MiIIers.
DR.. Ledd, besides telling about the
experiments with a bleaclied -four ex-
tract on various sets OF rabbits, the
animals dying In every case, made q
savage attack on the miliers Of North
Dakota, charging them with using as
much as Is per cent of durum wheat
in the manufacture OF their -four and
selling the resulting product at the
same price as fiolr made from all
String wheat
"These inillers who are doing this
are practicing fraud and deception
upon farmers of my state" he said.
They buy durum at from Is to 27
cents per bhshel less than they pay
for fife or blue stem, manufacture IL
into flour In connection with the lat
ter wheat. bleach the " hole product
and then put 1t into ordinary CONNER
cial channels and make the same
farmers pay as much for 1t as they
were giving them for fife and blue
stem. That's the deception that can
be practiced upon the people, and 1t
is nothing but robbery Of farmers OF
my state who raise dururn"
Dr. Ladd also gave In detail the re-
suits OF tests of bleached flour, beth
commercial and specially bleached, in
the laboratory at the North Dakota
experiment station. He declared that
he found nitrate reactionsry material
in bleached -four in quantities much
Snyder In HIS tests at the Minnesota
experiment station DR. Ladd also
found that in home baking about half
this quantity OF nitrate emained in
THE bread but that they usually dis
appeared when baked by ordinary
commercial baking methods.
Says Law Is violated.
Concluding, DR. Ladd said: ,"As a
result OF my experiments and tests,
have come to the conclusion that
bleached -four makes it more difficult
to Judge quality by the appearance OF
-four, and that harmful or deleterious
| Ingredients are not removed from
| -four, and no attempt is made to re-
move them. Bleaching is, therefore, a
violation Of the national pure food
law"
| In the course Of his main testimony
DR.. Ladd gave evidence directly op-
| posite to that of Professor Snyder and
other experts; who testified for the
| millers relative to the effect OF bleach
ing on constituent parts of -four. He
found that bleaching effects the oil
and, I'm digestive experiments, thai
| gluten and other substances taker
from bleached -four took considerably
longer to digest than similar sub
stances taken from unbleached -four.
PROFESSOR James II. Shepard, OF the
South Dakota experiment station. tes-
tified as to experiment which forced
himFto the belief that any product thai
had as much as one part of nitrous
acid to 100000 parts retards digestion
to- various degrees, and is therefore
harmful. On the theory that there
are nitrats reactionary materials ii
bleached flour, he concluded thaj
bleaching was harmful.
Saturdays session closed with tnt
testimony OF Inspector Stenhel OF tn,
department of agriculture, who col.
ilected samples of bleached and un,
bleached -four.