Show THERE SEEM3 to be more in the adulterated lard cases that have been casually mentioned in our eastern east-ern telegrams lately than the dispatches dis-patches would make it appear Very clear and sweeping cases are being made out against Fowler Brothers the pork packers of Chicago and Kansas City In some instances the adulteration amounted to 25 per cent and the adulterants used were cotton seed oil and mutton mut-ton tallow The difference in price between pure leaf lard and this stuff is Gc per pound amounting to between be-tween 65 and 6 on a barrel The lard or stuff so manufactured has all the appearance of the genuine article and is sold at the regular price to consumers who are ignorant ignor-ant of its effects A wholesale manufacturer of crackers and biscuits bis-cuits who unknowingly used some of the adulterated lard says he found his goods after a short time turned rancid and they were returned re-turned to him by his customers He had his lard analyzed and it was found to contain 10 per cent of cotton cot-ton seed ol and tallow He declared de-clared the slightest adulteration would tell on his goods Fowler Brothers are not the only firm guilty of doctoring their lard It is said to be next to impossible to obtain the pure article manufacturers manufactur-ers finding so easy to put in cheap adulterants |