Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-12-21 | Page 30 | Good Nuts Scarce, Says Commissioner

I GOOD US SCARCE, SAYS COMMISSIONER Many of Those on Market Said to Be Unfit for Consumption. There is small chance of Salt Laker getting qood nuts to put into Christmas! stockiug5, according to "VVillard Hansen, state food commissioner. Mr, Hansen and bis deputies, aided by F. W. Iiay-nor, Iiay-nor, United jStates food and drug inspector, in-spector, Lave completed an inspection of various kinds of nuts, now on tho market and yesterday the nuts were tested by Herman Harms, state chemist. Two tests were made of Brazil nuts, filberts fil-berts and Knglish walnuts. Tho test showed that none of the latter was good, that only a little more than :"0 per cent of the Brazil nuts were good, nnd less than half of the filberts were , Mr. Jtavnor ascribes the condition of the English walnuts to the fact that there was a dry season in California and 1 as a result tho mits became withered. Is Ho says that most of tho decomposed nuts arc iu that state because they were put iu cold storage aud when exposed to various changes of atmosphere they rapidly decayed. IIo says that most of the decomposed nuts are imported. The samples were all secured from local retail re-tail merchants and many described by the stato chemist us bad were being sold as first class nuts. I Stato Chemist Harms also completed yesterday a test cf seventy-five samples of highly colored candy, purchased at various candy stores by Commissioner Hanson, while on a recent Christmas in shoppiug trip for the state. With the Pj exception of two samples of raindrops, II which contained a slight amount of dirt, 1 19 every sample was found to be free from ;H foreigu matter, metallic color or pois- lyl onous flavors or dyes. IH Tho candy was of tho. cheapest, kind and was selected by Mr. Hauseu be ll cause of its particularly high color. The H auiplos represented all the Utah mak- H rrs :id several foreign firms.