The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-03-13
PURE FOOO MILLS
GRIND BIG CRIST
Forty Cases Against Impure,
Mis|abeIed Articles Are
Tried.
MANY VARIETIES IN LIST
DECISION is OBTAINED IN ONE
ACTION THAT CUsTARD CAN.
NOT BE MADE WITHOUT EGGS
BAD HORSE FEED.
MANY VARIETIES IN LIST

washington, March 12.-Uncle Sans
pure food department is getting buster
every day. During the last month it
has issued reports on forty cases-a rec.
ord breaking number for so short q
| period.
These discoveries of impure. misla-
oeled foods cover long list of things
TO eat and drink. In each case before
uncle Sam issues such report the case
is fought out in court, and not until
the court has sustained the govern
ments charges does Secretary Wilson
OF the Department of Agriculture Issue
IA Official publication ON the matter.
The court proceedings are unique, in
that they make the food and not the
manufacturer the defendant. So the !
records show: United States of Amer; /
ca WIS Thirty-Five Cases of Peaches.
Or maybe the defendant is Ten Boxes !
of Black Pepper
But In each case strange things come
to light. For instance, Uncle Sam has
decided that you cannot make custard
without eggs. A thrifty housewife
might have told him differently. bn:
the courts have sustained Uncle Sam.
In the case of 1.-TWO Hundred and
Eighty Packages of Instantaneous
Custard Preparation" hauled in by the
'leliant agents an analysis showed
tnat the product consisted mainly of !,
eornstarch. but contained no eggs.
MUST USE EGGS IN CUsTARD
The owners of the product, according
to the statement of the department, Il
MADE the claim at the hearing that GUS
ard could be prepared without the use of 1
eggs, but the department held and was
prepared to prove that custard cannot
be prepared without the use
OF eggs. Then the preparation pleaded
guilty. There are hard times ahead
for the boarding house owner.
Then came along car load of corn
meal. 1t was labeled Fresh Ground
Cornmeal. Best Water Ground Style"
This label. declared the department,
was misleading, in this. that it induc-
ca the belief that said meal was ground
in water mill on millstones, when in
truth and in fact it was ground by the
steam roller process, steam power be-
Ing used" AS the steam roller is sa- |
cred only in politics, the owner was
fined S..
Here is suit of The United States
of America versus Two Hundred Sacks
II Horse Feed The horse feed got
he worst Of it. because analysis show
I'd that 1t contained Is per cent of rice
lulls. and the court ordered it destroy
ID as dangerous for horses. Then
anne four cases of Chicago "pneumo-
Ia cure" guaranteed to be "entirely
Inherent from any other remedy, con-
aiming new principles never before ap-
'lied. The government could not
Ind anything new about it and the
company that owned it paid a 500
inc.
Next the departing dug up 116 sacks
Il cotton seed feed meal that was made
|p of 80 per cent of bulls. But this
'ot OFF easier than the horse feed, the
wner merely paying a $3.50 fine and
hanging the label
OF MACARONI FINED
Then came some macaroni which
Tas branded to indicate Italian orr
In. The government proved that it
anne from Long Island, instead of It.
~, and taxed the owner of the ooS
asses $1S.O2 for the deception.
The department seems to have a lot
I trouble with f1avoring extracts. for
here are a lot OF cases against ''vani1-
extract almond extract" straw
cry extract" and others in which the
'ouble seems to be that they contain
xerything except the essence OF the
artlcular fruit with which they are
lbeled.
The index to the judgment notices is
led by the department shows that its
r1st runs the gamut from apple cider
"a baking powder to water, whiskey
ID wine. On the way it includes
cans, buekheat flour. beer. blackber-
es, butter. cheese, cherries. coffee,
'gs. flour. honey. maple syrup. milk.
GLASSES. olive OIL peaches, pepper.
lsins, tomatoes, vinegar and host of