The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-06-27
PURE FOOD BOARD
EXPOSES CRAAF|TERS
Special to the Silver State. }

thorough ventilation in congress dur
ing the week preceding the Chicago
convention, but while it is possible
some of the talk was for political eff
feet, the congressional debates could
hardly have had any bearing on the
action of the convention.
What You Might Eat.
Thanks to the activities of the pure
food board of the department of agri-
culture, people are saved from eating
many things which might be bad for
them.
One of the most frequently adulter-
ated articles of food seems to be
tomato catsup. The board has issued
report on an examination made of a
high grade catsup guaranteed to
be made from "whole ripe tomatoes
and seasoned with puhe spices 1t
was put up in Kansas City. The ex-
animation showed that it was made
from skins and cores and contained
100, 900 900 bacteria to the cubic cen
timeter besides many yeasts and
spores and mold flaments "Adul-
teration was alleged for the reason
that the product consisted in large
part Of a filthy, decomposed and putrid
animal or vegetable substance. The
defendant pleaded guilty and was
fined 800 and costs.
Some Gases Even Worse.
Perhaps it would not be fair to de-
stroy the appetite of the public for
prepared foods by telling everything
the pure food board finds out about
such things. Live and dead worms,
q - 4 1
and filth of various kinds.
The house wife who pays fifty cents
for bottle of delicious California
olive oil may feel that it is rather ex-
pensive, but she knows what she is
getting. When she buys a cheaper ar
ticle with a beautiful picture of a
child picking cluster of olives, and
an italian inscription about colo
fino, Palermo etc, she is likely to
get the kind of goods which the board
tells of in Notice of Judgment No.
1404 and which was not olive oil at
all, but 100 per cent cottonseed oil.
Arturo Marchsini was fined 800 and
costs for shipping this salad oil from
Illinois into Minnesota.
What Constitutes Cranberry Jam.
a certain manufacturer tried to
.
concoction in which he had generously
placed % cranberries to the pound of
jam. The court imposed fine of $25
and costs.
A dealer in the city of Washington
had on sale Brooches Lemon Regis
tered Trade Mark-Sweetened Lemon
Juice. = This was described on the
labels IA ga sweeetened preparation
+ Of Isf it,tc nj ha f,,11 -
the peel. The government alleged
that the article was not sweetened
lemon juice nor entitled to be called
such as it was diluted and 'finiurious-
~ affected by the addition of water
The dealer was put under $3.50 bonds
not to dispose of the ''lemon juice
contrary to law. 1t might be reamrk-
ed that with the best California lem
ons selling as cheaply as they have
been during the recent hot weather,
there should me no incentive to buy
bottled goods which at best are in
ferior to the freshly expressed juice,
and more expensive. Lemons are de-
licious and refreshing in warm wealth
er and very cheap.
Canadian Commerce.
Canadian trade with foreign coun-
tries increased during 1911 over 1910
some $s5,95s,9 ,9s1. OF the 1924, $50, ,792
total imports into Canada in 1911, the
United States furnished $341, 1872, ,6l2,
and of the total exports, 5000, ,763, 1928,
the United States took $115, 5,203, ,454,
so that the balance of trade was large
ly in favor of this country even with
out the aid of reciprocity.
Canada imported from the United
States live animals valued at $2,632,-
971, and sent us in return animals
worth $1033,534 She took bread
stuffs worth sl1 ,05s,31s and sent back
to us similar articles worth $l,72O,-
$40. We took fish and fish products
from Canada worth $5,151,711, and
sent back nothing of that character.
We sold to Canada coal and coke
worth $40973, 1856, cocoa and choco-
late worth 1854, l53, cotton and manu-
features of cotton $15,09S, ,093, flax,
hemp and manufacures of $411, ,54S,
hides and skins $2,357,737, taking
from Canada hides and skins worth
$4,S51 ,l30, provicions $5,095,544, to-
bacco $3,9s6,30S, vegetables $2,059,-
625, and so on including oils, wood,
wool and other things of interest to
the agriculturist. We took also from
Canada hay worth $4,01s.695, milk and
cream worth $s59,330, which was a
falling off of about fifty per cent,
news print paper $l,96s,3 800. potatoes
SO, ,494, provisions $296,sll, spirits
wines and whisky $7s5, l04.
One of the most interesting items in
the schedule of imports and exports is
, that of settlers effects imported in
to Canada amounting to $9,647 ,S55
and the same articles exported from
Canada into the United States of ST.,
66s, ,405.
Canada imported from the United
States in 1911 fruits to the amount OF
$40, s90591, and we imported from
Canada the same year fruits worth
$3.50, ,30S
SUMMONED TO OAKLAND
BY DEATH Or SISTER