Show manufactured LARD A bill las been introduced in alie senate at washington providing for the stamping of all packages conta preparations of lard the testimony given before lie senate committee on by carlies who have examined various preparations of larj now on the market has added materially to ahe stock of public information on aliis pont A chemical examination of several prominent brands of family lard has shown them to bo variously constituted one sample examined seems to have been totally innocent of any trace of hog lard and to have been made up chiefly of beet fat and cottonseed oil other brands of lard have contained varying percentages of the above articles with the addition of hog lard and due brand in particular contained CO per cent pure laid 20 per cent cottonseed oil and 20 per cent st carine A prominent lard manufacturer testified at tho thai seven eighths of alic lard of commerce was made up of various portions of the bodies of hogt addad to cottonseed and st carine was adduced tending to show alic lard as above was anoro popular than alic puro lard itself an example of this was shown in the case of a manufacturer who was at one time unable to supply the de mand for the adulterated article and furnished his customers with pure lard instead the result of this effort to supply the demands was tho receipt of large number of letters complaining of the bad finality of pure product thus furnished another feature of the inquiry is the attitude taken by several leading South cin newspapers commercial exchanges and legislatures who declare that the bill is really aimed at and designed to in jure one of most important bouth cin industries the manufacture of cottonseed oil |