| Show misdirected enterprise the constant improvement of burglars tools is hardly an uglier adjunct of mc berc civilization than the rapid progress in the variety and ingenuity of food adulteration eggs and apples almost alone are still above suspicion cloves tea ground coffee vanilla lemon juice and mustards are nearly as frequently imitated as dairy butter cheese is filled with lard and lard with cammeal the abolition of sugar duties has failed to stop the traffic in glucose candy factories use terra alba by tons with an admixture of an ex tract from hickory buda and ginger common treacle can be made to resemble maple syrup sufficiently close to fool nine out of ten specialists aon flavoring extracts are made from such things as wood vinegar and coal tar but tho meanest tricks aro those practiced practised by the benders venders of honey A vile compound of glucose and acid is ported into factory made combs and bold in dainty wooden frames which in one case were found to consist of ligneous pasteboard a triple combination of frauds paralleled only in a certain sample of mustard which an analyst found to be a compound of four different ingredients two of which had so to express it been adulterated sub philadelphia times |
