FOOD ADULTERATIONS—WATERFOWLS,
In these days of se much talk about
pire foods, and with the protective
segislation by Congress on the subject,
the bulletin of the Bureau of Chem-
istry, Department of Agriculture, on
“Some Forms of Food Adulterations
and Simple Methods for Their Detec-
tion” is very timely,
Since the mile of the last century
the subject of food adulteration has
attracted a constantly increasing
amount of attention. In this country,
however, very little was done in this |
line until about 1880. In 1881 the
Division of Chemistry began the study
of food adulteration, and since then
has given a great deal of time to the
subject. Since 1898 the origin and
place of manufacture of the foods
studied by the Bureau have been care-
fully noted and special attention also
given to imported foods.
In 1883 the first practicable food-
inspection law in the United States was
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enacted in Massachusetts, Since that)
time other States have enacted and
enforced food laws, until at the pres-
ent time twenty-five States are seri-
ously attempting to regulate the char-
acter and quality of the foods sold in|
their markets. In three additional
States laws relating to the purity of
dairy products are enforced, and in
several others a beginning has been |
made, |
Food Regulation Abroad. |
Food legislation has much |
attention abroad and more ad-|
vanced foreign countries have effective
food laws and enforce them rigidly.
tae subject of the purity of food
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States now than at any previous time. |
The people as a are better in-|
formed on the subject than ever before,
and t is a stantly ‘ .
demand definit
response a ry large
inquiries regarding the n
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been prepared as a popular stater
regar i nature and extent
food adulteration, and in img
tests ousekeej or re
tail dealer may ine somes
the more prevalent ms of adultera- |
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The
subject |
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checked must sooner
unfavorably, It {a t
speak of some of our typical
poisoned, and of the manufa
poisoners. Such characterizations are
frequently exaggerations to
of untruth, Deleterious substances
are in many cazes added to foods. At
the same time the word “polson” has a
very strong and distinct significance
and should not be applied to any one
of the substances ordinarily added to
foods, except in the sense that they are
harmful. The word “polsoner” signi
files a person who intentionally and de-
ltherately administers an article in-
tended to result fatally, or at least
very disastrously to health,
The Juggling of Words.
During recent years there has been
& tendency to confuse the minds of
many by an incorrect use of certain
words frequently used in the discussion
of foods, It Is the policy of some man-
ufacturers to limit the word “adulter-
ated” to foods to which have been
added substances of lower value than
the foods themselves with the inten:
tion of increasing the weight or vol-
ume. This limitation Is certainly not
Justified by the English language nor
by the facts, and such a restriction of
the term is entirely unwarranted, The
word “adulterated” properly describes
a food to which any noncondimental
foreign substance, not properly con-
stituting a portion of the food, has
been added. The fact that the added
substance may be at times of a greater
commercial value than the food itself
has no bearing on the question, (Con-
versely, the word “pure” Is properly
applicable to foods that are unmixed
with any foreign substance. It may
be wholesome or unwholesome, but
this property Is not Indicated by the
word “pure” or “adulterated.” This
definition Is not, of course, complete,
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facturers that the addition of a pre-
servative to food does not properly
congtitute adulteration because the pre-
servatives added are of greater com-
mercial value than the foods them-
selves, Such a claim, however, seems
to be not! ing but a play upon words,
For instance, benzoate of soda has a
greater commercial value, weight for
weight, than tomatoes, and the claim
has been made that for that reason
its addition to tomatoes actually in-
creases the expense of the preparation
of tomato catsup. As a matter of fact,
however, it permits the tomato pulp
to be prepared in large quantities and
preserved in barrels in a much less ex-
pensive way than can be done without
its use, It is evident, therefore, that
even though the preservative employed
is more expensive than the substance
to which it is added, the addition is
really made for the purpose of cheap-|
| China species.
Water«Fowl in New England.
Broiler ducks are grown by the thou-
sands in several localities of Pennsyl-
vania, New Jersey and Long Island, as
well as elsewhere, the greatest num-
ber, however, coming from the first
named gections, One farm alone dur.
ing the year just passed marketed 37,
000 broiler ducks from its plant. But
New England is the home or breeding
grounds of the best quality of market
geese sold in this country. The most
careful, the most determined and the
most successful breeders and handlers
of high quality market geese are scat.
tered from Rhode Island to the end of
Massachusetts,
The old-time common or gray goose
has been largely displaced by the state.
ly Embden, Toulouse, African and
The Embden and the
Toulouse are the result of a union of
ening the product. It is not for this
the efforts of the French and the Eng-
lish. The African, the Hong Kong and
the China geese came, perhaps, from
the Asiatic countries,
Recently, at the Boston Poultry
Show, was exhibited the finest lot of
geese that have been shown in this
country for all time. One pair of
Embden (pure white geese) reached the
enormous welght of 58 pounds and the
Toulouse (gray market geese) almost
equaled them in gize. Next to these in
quality is the African, so much valued |
for the rearing of what are known as |
the mongrel geese
The white Embden, sald to have
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reason that such a substance is prop-
because it is an added foreign sub-
diment. These definitions cannot be
emphasized too strongly. Adulterated
foods are not necessarily unwholesome
foods.
The bulletin published by the De-
partment gives in detail the various
kinds of adulterants and additions to
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the ordinary beverages and foods used [try, into New England, where large
in ordinary consumption, and also
simple means of detecting the presence
of the foreigh matter contained in
them. The pamphlet should occupy a
prominent place in every household
library, and can be obtained upon ap-
plication to the Division of Publica.
tions, Department of Agriculture,
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Feeds Fowls Automatically.
A farmer In Oregon, who owns a
small poultry farm, has devised a novel
method of feeding h's chickens during
his absence. In each yard he has
erected troughs to hold food for the
hens, and these are connected by wire
with an alarm clock In the farmhouse
When the owner leaves home in the
morning he sets the alarm clock at
the hour of feeding the chickens. and
by an Ingenious arrangement, when
the time arrives, the alarm goes off,
the connecting wire releases the
troughs, and the food Is spread before
the hungry fowls,
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The area of the new state of Okla
originated from the visit of a swan to |
ome of the commoner flock of a town |
of thesame name on the Continent, have |
been carefully bred and selected until]
they are very large, handsome white |
which to be valued first
as a true-bred variety for the producing |
of feathers and market poultry. The
Toulouse that came from France are
fully their equal in every way, except
that the feathers gray or mixed
with gray instead of pure white,
What is known as wild or Can- |
ada goose, mated with an African, pro- |
duces the mongrel goose so highly |
valued In Eastern markets from
Thanksgiving through Christmas times
When the Canada gander and the Afri
can goose become properly mated they
will be constant one to the other to the
end of their existence, growing each
year one or two broods of mongrel
geese that are ready for market during
Thanksgiving and Christmas times and
dress to a weight at this age heavier
than either of the parent pair. The
quality of the meat is excellent, the |
price obtained ranging from $2.75 to
$4 each, according to the season and
the quality and finish of the individual
specimens themselves
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These with the Embden, the Tou-
louse and the China geese furnish the
high-priced geese for the winter mar-
kets. No one of these of the better
qualities is ever sold for less than 28 to
30 cents per pound, and there is a ready
sale for all of them offered at these |
prices. In addition to these, thousands
of geese are gathered from as far north
as Nova Scotia, down through all the
States of the Western part of the coun.
FAIR OF GRAY AFRICAN GEESE,
where the feathers are just right to be
plucked from the carcass without hav.
ing the bad appearance that of neces-
sity must be present if there is a large
amount of down or short feathers
showing. Geese, to be properly mare
largely doing away with the bother of
sitting hens and the detail and atten.
tion entailed by operating an incu-
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Experienced incubator operators put in
substantial hatching plants solely for
the production and immediate disposi.
tion of chicks direct to poultry people,
both amateur and professional. For
the most part the new method possesses
some range in its application. It has |
been found that day-old chicks will |
bear shipment to a considerable
tance, and that a car ride of from ten |
to fifteen and twenty } t con- |
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arge numbers to the finest finish and
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to see eight or ten thousand of these
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fed and cared for *by attendants to
bring them to that perfection of mar-
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| Why Land is a Good Investment.
The statistician of the Department of
| Agriculture of the United States esti
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this country will be 130,000,000, and the
census bureau agrees that this is a con.
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will necessitate the production of 700.
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yards are large plants with lots, some-
thing like the stock yards of the large
cities, only smaller in size. The geese
are placed in the enclosures and fed
for heavyweight and fine finish to be
dressed for market. As many as 10.-
000 geese are gathered at one or two
points In Massachusetts, and fed In
this way for the winter markets. It
takes several weeks to properly finish
them and new supplies are constantly
coming In to replace those that are
sold off. The profitable demand for
geese of this kind extends over a period
| mensely increased quantity of food and
000,000 bushels of wheat, 1,2560,000000
bushels of oats, 345,000,000 bushels of
corn, 100,000,000 tons of hay; and cot-
ton, tobacco and fruits and vegetables
in proportion. To produce this im.
kindred products will necessitate the
bringing under cultivation of an addi.
tional 150,000,000 acres of land, and it
is estimated that we have only 108.
000,000 acres available for cultivation,
Of course these estimates do not take
into account the efforts of Secretary
Wilson, of the Department of Agricul.
of from nine to twelve weeks, begin- | ture, whereby every acre will pvents
ning just before Thanksgiving and end. | ually produce double its present crop.
ing In January, vevertheless these statistics present
No attempt has yet been made In| matters for serious reflection, and
this country for the excessive fattening | should bring it home to every thought
of geese, such as Is carried on im Ger | ful man that good agricultural land to-
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nor has fattening or feeding for the better object in life than a determina-
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