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solid meat. So while we have to pa}' a little more for oysters 

 than we used to, they are worth 25 per cent more than they 

 were; and not only do you get more oysters but you are surer 

 of the quality. When they were taken from the salt water and 

 soaked in fresh water, you could not be sure of what you were 

 getting. Oysters are the greatest germ carriers of any food, 

 next to milk. A great many cases of typhoid fever have been 

 traced to oy-sters. Another thing in which the improvement 

 has been very noticeable is in the branding of different articles 

 that are sold. When we first inspected molasses, everything 

 that sold under the name was branded molasses. Now any- 

 thing that is marked molasses is usually pure molasses. In our 

 last inspection I do not think we found even one sample that 

 was not pure molasses. Of course the mixtures of glucose 

 and molasses are still sold, but they are properly marked. If 

 the consumer takes the pains to look at the label on the jug or 

 package in which he gets the molasses he will find that it is 

 properly labelled. There is another line of goods which we 

 inspect and with which we have considerable trouble, and tlu-t 

 is the extracts. With those it is almost impossible to get full 

 measure, except from the very best companies. The extracts 

 have been sold for so many years in bottles which the manu- 

 facturers claim to be two ounce or four ounce bottles anrl are 

 perhaps anywhere from 15 to 25 per cent short, that it is difficult 

 to change this custom. The manufacturers of the Aliller 

 extracts, for instance, say they cannot sell a ten cent bottle now, 

 under the restrictions that we put upon them, because they have 

 to put so much in a bottle. They used to sell a two ounce 

 bottle for ten cents, or what they called a two ounce bottle. 

 They get around the difficulty now sometimes by using a bottle 

 that is as large as a two ounce bottle but much thinner. It does 

 not hold much over an ovmce and they do not mark it as con- 

 taining two ounces and so we have no case against them. The 

 consumer should see what he is getting, and the quantity should 

 be marked on the package. 



S. C. Thompson. 



I am very glad to have the opportunity of attending this ban- 

 quet. It seems very much like coming home for me. I was 



