The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-28
THE POOR CONSUMER is HIT HARD

per cent. of alcohol were found
III an almond extract More +bon
II per cent. Of alcohol was discov-
eIed IN strawberry extract Pre-
clpltate OF lead was in a samnIn Of
vanilla extract. ~ u
MoIasses is adulterated into OIL,
cose and reboiled Sroros ~ SUI
lQunG IN the product to the extent
oI Z per cent, and glucose to the
extent OF 80 per cent. Maple svrun
- oIten one-half cane syrup with
glucose added. WIN
Inc farmers are cheated with
STOCK feed adulterated with ground
corn cobs, rice hulls, etc. Thew arc
iooleu INTO buying so-called distillers'
uIled grains. Cottonseed meal is
adulterated with the bulls. Manv of
the foods are misbranded as to the
pIoCelh and fat in them, the quanti-
Cies BENG far less than advertised.
GROUND nut hulls are mixed with
powdered asafoetida.
Cahdles are extensively adultarat-
ed IN many new ways. Metallic sill
yer mas been found in some. Gin
cose IS used in jellies and preserves.
A Lie About Eggs.
Eggs marked strictly fresh" have
Deen opened by the agricultural de-
partment experts and found to be so
ola there were rosette crystals in the
Whlte and in the yoIk One-third of
the contents had evaporated before
the shell was opened. The size of
the air chamber in an egg is a guide
TO the consumer as to the age of the
egg. Animal matter was found in
seedIess raisins seized in a pie bak-
cry. Cheeses labelled foreign
cream are often made in America
OF skinned milk. Egg custard DOW
ders frequently have no egg in them.
domestic macarOni is branded as
foreign. Formaldehyde is put in
liquid egg preparations.
Milk is still being adulterated all
over the country, especially in hot
weather, by the addition of few
drops of formaldehyde to each 40
quart can. Starch and gelatine are
common adulterants of ice cream.
One Of the largest concerns in the
beef trust was caught putting out a
brand of condensed milk 20 per cent.
short in the advertised weight
Flour.-Much choice -four" made
from the finest selected hard
wheat" is an adulterated product.
Durum wheat has been added. Ohio
flour is often sold as Minnesota flour
BuckWheat -four often contains
maize or wheat or both, All sorts of
mixtures of hard and soft wheats are
misbranded. The labels also some
times are untrue as to the kind of
process used in the milling Barley
meal is mixed with oatmeal. Rye
flour is adulterated with wheat. Oats
are adulterated with chaff.
Whiskey is subject to all sorts of
tricks. A >'choice Canadian whis-
key sold in Buffalo was found to be
ordinary commercial alcohol artif-
cially colored. A bourbon whisky"
made in Louisiana was simply ?.
product of fermented molasses. A.
so-called quinine whiskey contained
scarcely a trace of quinine The
same was true as to the buchu in
kidney cure" gin. A "damiana gin"
was seized and found to contain
strychnine, brucine and salicylic acid.
Pooling the Foolish.
Skin Food. One of these Skin
foods, made in an Ohio city and ad-
vertised as containing rose water.
cologne and sarto n, was analysed
and found to be made of pink dyed
magnesium sulphate or epson salts.
Other skin foods and complexion ton
les have been seized and condemned
as made of the cheapest, simplest in
gradients sold at a high price.
Honey is adulterated with glucose
and "invert sugar"
Pepper sometimes contains dried
ground beans of wheat meal Brazil
coffee is sometimes sold as Java.
Coffee often is coated with lead chro-
mate. A seizure of this sort was
made in New Orleans. The low
grade South American coffees, worth
nine cents a pound, are sold as 3d.
cent Asiatic cOffees. This is true
not only of the coffee mixed by cor
ner grocers, but also of the so-called
fancy brands put up in labelled
packages and widely advertised. Nut
shells and fruit pits go into the pep
per grinder.
Microbes of disease were found in
popular brand of spring water"
indicating the water came from an
ordinary city hydrant.
Many brands of ''whiskey'' have
been seized by the agricultural de-
partment as being high. wines. A
vermouth advertised to strengthen
the mind" contained a lot of alcohol
but no mind-strengthener. A fruit
Jam was found to be so per cent.
corn syrup. A banana extract con-
tanned no extract of banana. "Hol-
land rusk" are made in Brooklyn.
Butter.-More renovated butter is
still on the market. Salt made in
the United States is sold as foreign
salt. Many of the so-called health
foods and gluten breads are simply
wheat preparations no different from
ordinary white -four products.
1.f25 SPOONFULS OF ANTI-TONIN.