The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-10-15
DECREE IS OUT
AGAINST SOAP IN
THE SODA WATER
Frozen Product Must Be Cream
and Meats Must Be Smoked
Instead of Soaked.

B~rookings, S. D., Oct. 14.-South Da-
kota is one of a group of western
states which proposes to say that water
shall not be sold as oysters, that Ice
cream shall really be frozen cream.
smoke shall be a vapor and not
a liquid and that the proprietors or
soda fountains shall not soft soap
their drinks.
This is announced by Dairy and
and State Chemist j. III. Shepard, who
have just returned from a conference
al Madison, Wis. OF pure food authori-
ties from North Dakota, Minnesota,
Wisconsin,, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and
Michigan and South Dakota. 1t was
the object OF this meeting to formu-
late a basis for the rulings to be made
by the food commissioners OF these
states, as 1t is recognized as OF adj
vantage in the enforcement OF the law
and less troublesome to dealers, IL tn
regulation In the uniform states are
uniform.
Devotees of soda fountains who have
been educated to believe that ice cream
is really better If corn starch and
gelatine and water are substituted for
cream, will be interested to know that
up to its name. IL Is to be defined
al a frozen product made from cream
and sugar, with or without a natural
havoring, and containing not less than
IA FER e of milk fat" Now, as raw
cream usually contains from 16 to Is
per cent of butter fat, ii will be seen
that the ice cream OF the future in
the middle west is to be worthy of the
title. Fruit OF nut ice cream, however,
need have but IL per cent OF butter
fat. IL gelatine, t~ragacanth OF other
vegetable, gum or eggs are used the
must SO announce, and the butter
fat must not fall below h required
standards.
Soap Bark for "Fizzes.'
Some drug stores make a practice
of boiling a pound OF soap bark-a
substance used for taking stains out
Of clothes--in a gallon OF water, strain
ing the liquid and adding a half pound
Of boraX. Two ounces of this remark
able connection is then added to each
gallon of syrup and IL makes the soda
water e~ffervesce with enthusiasm.
The IA food experts have concluded
that IL Is not exactly right to feed
people soar in the guise OF soda water
and so IT is to be tabooed. Soft drinks
which contain cocaine and fasten drug
habits on patrons without their knowl-
edge. are to be forbidden. Even cof-
Zee is to be prohibited as a flavor for
soft drinks, IT being declared that "the
addition OF caffein is unnecessary and
reaching as II does largely to the child
population, Is fraught with extreme
danger and constitutes a menace"
The modern way Of smoking" fish.
ham, bacon or sausage Is to sink IT
In q barrel OF liquid and keep IL there
some days or weeks. This invention
has meant a good many tens OF thou-
sands OF dollars TO the packers, but
the food commissioners have declared
the practice fraudulent and insuriolG
and will contest the sale OF any OF
these meats not genuinely smoked. =
No Dogs In Sausage.
Once these guardians OF the public
stomach have had their way, hous&-
wives need no longer worry because
they are given a pint of oysters and q
pint Of water when they order n quart
OF oysters. The commissioners cen
cluded, after due elaboration, thai
oysters are not water and that water
is not oysters. Consequently shucked
bivalves are not to be "adultcrated" by
water or ice, because the practice has
the effect of towering, de~precatins
and injuriously affecting their strength,
quality and purity"
Sausage Is defined and It is speei-
fed 1t shall contains no more water
than the original meat, and IL cereals
are mixed with the meat the label must
state the fact. The commissioners, it
appears, are strongly inclined to allow
the people to mix their own foods with
each other or with water.
Some OF these states already have
some of these regulations In force, but
these are chiefly new recommenda-
tions. Two representatives OF the
bureau Of chemistry at Washington
were at Madison ard gave the COM
missioners and chemists many spgges-
tions.