Show IN THE MATTER OF MUSTARD it will be b renumbered remembered by the thousands who attended the last quarterly conference of the weber slake stake of zion in the ogden tabernacle and liste fied to the forcible and instructive discourse of president joseph F smith on the grand principle of home industry that the speaker when dwelling on the folly fully of the latter day saints importing from abroad articles of daily consumption which they could produce themselves thereby not only saving their means but ee securing curing pure and articles referred to mustard as one of the tile things which it was sheer absurd absurdity ty for our people to purchase pur chaie abroad with the raw material the mustard plant being being 0 so prolific conour colour own fields and in in our own gardens president smiths counsel to tho the latter day saints to raise their own mustard to put on their also home raised pork will be still more heeded by the people if they learn of the nature and extent of tha the villainous adulteration of the imported spice A few days age dr cyrus edson submitted to the new york health board the result of his investigation into the adulte adulteration ra of this important adjunct of our dinner table his report that three out of thirteen samples of mustard manufactured in the metropolis and analyzed by prof walker contained yellow which chisa is a violent irritant poison and were in addition largely adulterated with flour tho the other ten specimens contained from 20 to 75 per cent of flour with in some cages cases considerable percentage of the indigestible terra alba white earth the same deleterious ingredient which so largely enter enters into the manufacture of candies on re ceiling the report of dr edson the health board sum summoned the mustard manufacturers before it to warn them and thia this viles vile stuff tufT we import to utah the hillsides hill sides of which arc are covered with the yellow topped abru ebru 3 of the ilia mustard plant which could easily beso be so cultivated as to t yield the material for manufacturing it into the domestic mustard tb this matter of mustard may appear A mall small one but if we corn come to figure up the cost of its importation iu in dollars and cents and consider cou sider what a contemptible substitute for the ilia genuine article we are getting the matter assumes larger proportions proportion a there arc are ji cores ot ol thing things in the domestic manufacture of which we should strive to become entirely entirely y self sustaining and independent from outside markets but a be ginning must be made why not make the start with rau mustard so that as tho the mustard seed sprouts and grows into a large tree yielding shado and comfort so the good seed of home industry ind BO so diminutive at present may grow and develop into a tree treo of prosperity with its heavily loaded branches reaching to the uttermost habitations of the latter day saints |