Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1912-01-10
What Did You Have for Dinner?
Maybe You Did; Maybe You Didn't
(From the Atlanta Georgian.)

| Let me have a can Of that corn,
one OF those cans OF tomatoes, a can
| Of the peaches over there, pint bot
tie OF your vinegar, pint of that
| maple syrup, a pint Of Georgia G., .
| syrup, and a pound OF that pork sau-
sage Oh the meat counter. Fix me
up pound Of candy-some OF all
kinds there in the show case, and
I'll try Il pound Of thai ground cof-
fee, too
The purchaser hands the grocer
the amount Of his purchases, puts
the packages in Il grip, and walks
out. The young man with the grip
is likely to go through this perform
ance in any grocery store in any city
or town in Georgia. There is no
telling when or where he will show
up. He doesn't carry that bag around
to do marketing for his wife, and the
things he buys over the grocery coun-
ter do not reach the kitchen table or
State laboratory. He is the pure
food man, and he is looking out for
violations Of the pure food laws Of
Georgia.
p, A. Methvin, State pure food in
spector, is right in the midst Of
90-days' winter pure food campaign,
at the time Of the year when the gro
Gerry stores are selling the greatest
quantities Of canned goods, packing
house products, and the like. These
products are not much in demand in
the summer and fall when fresh veg
etables, chickens, eggs and fresh
meats are so plentiful. The pure
food man regulates his inspections
according to the season, and special
ICES on the products that are being
most generally sold.
Gets Samples from Stores.
Every day or so Mr.. Methvin
brings in from 10 to 60 food sam
pies, which are turned over to the
chemists Of the State Department Of
Agriculture, Of which the pure food
buicau 10 Didntu. JuSl HOW Wnon
fertilizers are not being sold and
shipped in any appreciable amount,
the seven chemists Of the depart
mcnt are giving practically their en-
tire time to food analyses. Inspec-
tor Methvin gets the samples right
off the store shelves and from the
show cases, and then the chemists
got busy.
In canned fruits and vegetables
the chemists search for preservatives
foreign coloring matter and other
foreign substances, and examine into
the sanitary condition Of the cans.
The labels must conform to the con-
tents, and If adulterations or color
ings are used the label must so state,
else the pure food laws are violated.
Maple syrup must contain real ma
pie tree sap, and must not be adul-
tcrated with glucose. The can syr-
ups must contain syrup cane Juice,
and not some substitute. The syrups
must conform in component parts
with the labels on the cans.
Vinegars must be labeled whether
pure apple or distilled extracts, and
What You Thought
Stewed Sweet Corn
Select California
Imported French Peas
Prime Roast Beef au Jus
Blackberry
Peaches and
What You May
Old field corn, parboiled to ten
produce the proper color, and sweet
Unripe or over-ripe tomatoes,
Of unsoundness and diluted to about
Asparagus raised n thousand
canned to destroy it's toughness, and
color.
Plain field peas treated with su
color of the imported article.
Tough and putrid field beans
make them tender and snappy.
Beef with saltpeter pumped into
Pork, beef, mutton and other
| into the butchers waste box, groun(
meal added to give 1t weight
/