Show CREAM OF TARTAR Oi CRy City Find AU Of Exoe xo lent lont Quality city ill Chemist Harms Harm ha hm just m mode made d a report to 10 the thc city food Inspector on oa hi his analyses 1111 of cream of tartar samples of or whirl which II were Ire ere recently submitted to him him after being plotted pIcked up UI at random from stores In this lIl city A synopsis ut at th thu Ihu report U is s follows tollow ream of IC tartar or potassium lurn I Is III u IL tub nub obtained us as a II b product dl during Ih the of ot grape fl wine whIt In Ith the tIme of ol f fermentation H ut peculiar i u mat matI I Is deposited o In the cask which l is III I or om crude It 1 I Is from this thin by ty purification that the cream at of tartar IB is obtained lard Formerly commercial I I itam am of itt tartar lurlar contained a II small mull pro proportIon proportion proportion portion of ot of 01 lime but bUl In recent Yf limen In have been bun made it In It II Its manufacture so ao today the cream of Il tartar I Is obtainable IOU per r cent purity i The Tho United iii States I a II de 45 demands I mands for medicinal UI use an 00 article I containing at lit least 99 89 per cent potassium slum ilium I Formerly this article wat subjected to adulterations Ions Uon with gypsum chalk plaster of ot Purls Paris alum elum flour and other mib lub in fact tome ione of the trem of tartar contained no of or tin tar at ut all III TO However th these are mire O of lee les 4 frequent at the 1111 da iii tyone Iyone samples sample purchased r mont groceries and drug druE stores of or Suit II II City It Ity Werl tep to III analysis All ll 11 of ur these were found to 10 be bl pure purl mu nf or excellent quality A comparatively simple tent eeC for the housewife 10 to determine the purity of cream of tartar I III ii to dissolve a amount In lit boiling helling water pure liure 1 of or tartar dissolves completely while lime limp chalk halk flour and other adulterations th remain In A drop of or tincture of Iodine Incline to th the cooled t I solution shoe ii H by HIP lie blue color produced the e of Hour lour U um und ad thy itt material let iii I |