Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-07-09

80 ent meetings of the full con-
vention. The first section IS
known as that of food control executives. It's mem
bership consists of all state and federal officials
food laws 1t has been said that de-
vised law that did not give him ROLAND
for his oliver by devising method for getting
around it, and that been particularly true OF 1.-THE
food laws. The section of food control execu-
lves Will try this year to devise metnoos OF puths
down of these which persist. the pure
food laws to the contrary notwithstanding
Another section consists of the dairy officials
OF une country Lhelr prooiem Is 70 w i3
of the milk and butter supply of the country The
growing evidence that with the water supply of city
purified nearly two-tArds of the contagious and III
fictitious diseases traceable to impure milk. is
leading to national pure milk propaganda which is
strongly backed by the dairy officials section Of the
A. S. N. F. D. D.
The section of food control analysis has large
membership, and those who compose it are the peo-
of adulterants Gradually the number of aduterants
being restricted and the people learn
the laboratory of the food analyst that the
protectors of the American stomach be found.
is composed of the legal end of the various gov
eminent food and dairy departments
One of tie interesting reports forthcoming az
this convention relates the problem of cold storage
standard set of rules for cold storage ought
adopted, rules which would be fair at to the
cold storage warehousemen and just to the consumer
A few months the president of the association
appointed committee in accordance with the IN
question make appropriate, recommendations
to the convention. Another committee appointed
pure food laws As it has frequently happened that
than half billion have been found IN
the number which might be eaten at single meal
is inestimable what breeds of baciln dam
demnaton questions that probably will be an
swered for the whole United States in this report
In spite of the great awakening of the people
against impure and adulterated food, and nothwith-
he hat renaitff nv afFnr r. nut
down the traffic in such foods being put forth,
some under the sanction of the law and
trary to its provisions instance. there
known in the trade as spot eggs and that is but
a gentle word for the kind that supposed to
be thrown at unpopular politicians and bad actors.
taners treated with certain deodorzing agents. ana
then sold to the bakers. After they baked into
cakes and pastries chemist sees no difference
between them and good eggs That is why some
states permit the traffic to go on
Then the cheap butcher has a trick to make
putrid flesh look like the best in the market
then moisten it with water, and you have me
appearance of raw bleeding flesh The cheap butcher
puts it on bao meat and in bologna sausage Of au-
cient lineage, and presto it looks fresh
came from the best meat market-and 1t kills all
the use Of Jerusalem" is punishable onense; in
others it is not
Certain kinds of FISH, especially shad. when they
begin little worse for wear in the fish mar
gilis deftly painted and their whole appearance
that of fresh fish just out Of the water. Con.
necticut frost fish touched up with red ink and
the Nutmeggers often buy them for trout way
has been found to make two pounds OF butter
out of one the other pound oelng mace up OF 4 TEA
spoonful butter emulsion and water The recips
that if they are worked together Tor 10 min
there will be two pounds OF butter ana no
water Food Commissioner Crumbine, Of Kansas got
some Of this butter ana tooK II 10 seVsraI pu.sf
experts and they were unable TO tell 1t from genu-
inc butter. The owner of the formula recommends
it especially to hotel propretors fine I.
pare down their butter bills In many parts OF the
country a machine is being sold to farmers
bntter and a pound of skim milk and have two
pounds butter" from it Wherever this goes into
interstate commerce. somebody stands chance of
beign fined but it can be used within the limits IF
many states without trouble
In Tennessee a genius has devised a method OF
making a gallon Of vinegar-pure apple cider vine
the real except by laboratory analysis. He also has
a formula making genuine old-fashiened apple
at a cost only one-fourth great by the old
cider-mi1 and copper-kettle method The Tennessee
state food commissioner, DR.. Lucius Brown who has
been president of the A. S. N. F. D. D. during the
past year. about sthed the energies Of this Bar
mum of the cider-mn world
Every one has seen the familiar Illustrations
the chiIds stockings pinafores which have been
dyed brilliant hue with the coal tar dyes from a
single gumdrop or a stick Of candy. But that is
not all that goes into the cheap candies which the
children often buy. Some of them have been /
shown to contain ordinary glue. such is used for
sizing walls in paperhanging, to contain ordi
nary furniture varnish. and some arsenic 1t is
serted that the higher-prced candies are pure ana
that it is only the very cheap grades that
aduIterated. Of the vast proportion Of the
candy today is but it required long
sade make it So
The American people much to the associa-
ton. For years it has been hammering along
one line, lighting for corrective legislation that
would enable the food officers put stop to
abuses they hitherto were powerless to reach. At
first membership limited to few states. Cor
ony few had pure food laws. One by
states yielded to the campaign of education and
enlisted in the warfare against bad food Then the
federal government fell into nne and today few
countries the world making such persistent
effort protect the stomachs of the people against
the cupidty INSCRIPTIONS food manufacturers and
purveyOrs.
Louisiana hit upon a novel method OF carry
ing the pure food gospel to all the people. It has
QUILTED a health train and the cars carried
over the railroads of the state stopping wherever
a sufficient number Of people be got together
showing them how foods adulterated,
these authorizations may be detected, and
state desires and every citizen cooperate
with it as a of volunteer inspector the de-
lection of all impure food.