El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-08

I-,9cyyn as the Pure Food special" The
convention will take up many food
TICtIems in general, but especially the
irafter of reinforcing and making moro
effective the national pure 1ood and
m association has had a new section
added to it since the last annual con-
Venffon-the section of food chemists.
There are now five sections, and each
will hold Independent meetings in the
afternoons the fOrenOOnS being re-
served for the meetings of the full con-
vention The first section is known as
that of food control executives. Its
membership consists Of all state and
federal officials who have TO do with
+he enforcement of the pure food laws
1t has been said that no man ever de-
vised law that some one did not give
him a Roland for his oliver Dy de-
visines a method for getting around it,
and that has been particularly true of
the pure food laws The section of
food control executives will try this
down some of these abuses which per
sist, the pure food laws to the con-
trary Notwithstanding
Another section consists Of the dairy
officials of the country. Their prob
lem is to work out ways and means
for promoting the quality and the pur-
ity of the milk and butter supply of
the country. The growing evidence
that with the water supply Of d city
purified. nearly tWO-thirdS of the con-
tagious and Infectious diseases are
traceable to impure milk is leading to
a national pure milk propaganda which
is strongly backed by the dairy Off
Gals section of the A. 5. y. L. ID. d.
Cutting Out the Adulterants.
The section of food control analysis
has a large membership, and those
who compose it are the people who
stand between the consumer and the
users of adulterants- Gradually the
number of adulterants are being re-
stricted and the people at large are
learning how to detect many Of them,
but after all it is in the laboratory
Of the food analyst that the real pro-
tectors Of the American stomach are to
be found The section Of food ana
drug control Jurisprudence is composed
of the legal end of the various govern
ment food and dairy departments.
One of the interesting reports forth
coming at this convention relates TO the
problem of cold storage At the last
annual convention it was decided that
q standard set OF rules for cold stor-
age ought to be adopted, rules which
would be fair at once to the cold stor-
age WarehOuSemen and just TO the
consumer A few months ago the pres
ident of the association appointed a
committee in accordance with the in
structiOn of the convention, to consider
the whole question and to make aD-
propriate recommendations to the con-
vention. Another committee was ap-
pointed to devise a system of bac-
THEOLOGICAL standards to govern the
various departments in enforcing the
pure food laws As it has frequently
happened that more than half a billion
germs have been found in a half tea
spoonful Of tomato pulp it viii be
seen that the number which might be
eaten at a single meal is inestimaOle.
Just what breeds OF bacil1 are dan
gerOUs, and how many may be present
10 justify condemnation, are questions
that probably will be answered for the
whole United States in this report
In spite of the great awakening Of
the people against impure and adulter-
ated food, and Notwithstanding the fact
that unremitting efforts TO put down
the traffic in such foods are being
put forth. there are still those who do
a fiOurishing business-some under the
sanction of the law, and some contrary
to its provisions. For instance, there
are what is known in the trade as
spot eggs, and that is but a more
gentle word for the kind that are sup
posed to be thrown at unpopular poll
ticians and bad actors. They are
bought by the millions, thrown into
containers, treated with certain deOdOr-
izing agents. and then sold to the
bakers After they are baked into
cakes and pastries the chemist sees
no difference between them and good
eggs That is why some states permit
the traffic to go on.
Making Fish Look Fresh.
Then the cheap butcher has a trick
to make putrid flesh look like the best
in the market He calls it "Jerusa-
lem" Rub a little of it on the hand
You have the appearance of raw, bleed
ing flesh. The cheap butcher puts it
on bad meat and in bologna sausage
Of ancient lineage, and presto it looks
as fresh as ever came from the best
meat market-and it kills all often
sive odOrs at the same time, In some
states the use of Jerusalem is n
punishable Offensc; in others it is not.
Certain kinds of fish, especially shad,
when they begin to look a little worse
for wear in the fish market, have
their eyes touched up with chemicals
their gills deity painted, and their
whole appearance made that of fresh
fish Just out Of the water. COnnecti-
cut frost fish are touched up with
red ink and the Nutmeggers often buy
them for trout.
Two Pounds Out of One,
A way now has been found to make
two pounds of butter out of one, the
other pound being made up of q tea =
spoonful of butter emulsion and va
ter. The recipe says that if they are
worked together for 10 minutes there
will be two pounds of butter and no
water. Food commissioner Crumbine
or Kansas, got some Of this butter and
took it to several butter experts, and
they were unable to tell 1t from genu-
Inc butter. The owner of the formula
recommends 1t especially to hotel pro
prletors as fine way % pare down
their butter bills In many parts OF
the country new machine is being
sold to farmers through which they
NeA4L tdFAN d pOuAlQ u ordinary DuLltL
and a pound of skim milk, and have
two pounds OF butter" from it. Wher-
ever this goes into interstate commerce
somebody stands a chance of being
fined, but 1t can be used within the
limits OF many states without trouble.
Cheap Vinegar.
In Tennessee a genius has devised
method of making a gallon of vinegar
pure apple cider vinegar at that-fOr
four cents; and ii cannot be told from
the real except by laboratory analysis.
He also has a formula for making
genuine, old fashioned applebutter"
with one apple to the gallon of butter
and at a cost only One-fOurth as great
as by the old cider mill and copper ket-
tie 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 has about
stifled the energies of this Barnum Of
the cider mill world.
Every one has seen the familiar
illustrations of the childs' stockings
and pinafOres which have been dyed a
brilliant hue with the coal tar dyes
from a single gum drop or a stick Of
candy. But that is not all that goes
into the cheap candies which the chill
dren so often buy. Some of them have
been shown to contain ordinary glue
such as is used for sizing walls in pa
per hanging, some to contain ordinary
furniture varnish, and some arsenic. 1t
is asserted that-the higher priced can