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added a little iodine, to test it as to starch, turned a muddy black, as 

 would be the case with any union of starch and iodine. 



One bushel of cornmeal will make forty-five pounds of such jelly. 

 Besides starch, there is used in making these jellies, glucose, detrine, and 

 sulphuric acid. The glucose is boiled with a little sulphuric acid, and the 

 process stopped a little short of the complete change, producing the 

 gummy material for these jellies. EfPorts are made to remove the sul- 

 phuric acid with lime, with the result that sulphate of lime is left and not 

 all the acid removed. 



A sample of apple jelly, bought in Charlotte, was tested, showing the 

 same result as the others. It was sold for five cents per pound, and was 

 made by Franklin McVeagh & Co. of Chicago. 



Is it injurious? asked Mr. Kedzie. Well, if you wish to hang on to 

 your teeth you must not eat sulphuric acid. On the other hand, if you 

 are going to live on jellies, you will need no teeth! 



Unless you fruitgrowers come to the front and put down these frauds 

 and compel the sale of them by their correct names, your making of cider 

 vinegar must go the wall. If jellies are to be so made and sold as fruit 

 jellies, your fruit crops must suffer and your orchards must decrease in value. 



Mr. Wilcox: If there is no law to reach these men, they must be a 

 favored class. If I should put one-dollar potatoes into the center of fifty- 

 cent apples, I would be arrested for fraud and convicted. 



Mr. Kedzie: You ought to be! 



Mr. MoERiLL exhorted the people to arouse public sentiment upon these 

 questions, and, as a means to that end, the support of the State Horticul- 

 tural society which labors to advance in every way the interests of fruit- 

 growers. He knew of an institution in Chicago into which go three cars 

 of corn per day, and a stream of syrup comes out. 



Inquiry was made as to the manufacture of syrups from corn. Dr. 

 Kedzie said that this sort of fraud was shown up long ago, and for a time 

 the sale of such syrups nearly ceased. If these things drop out when we 

 drop upon them, we would better drop! Saccharine is made from coal tar, 

 and has four hundred times the sweetening power of sugar, and this is 

 used to tone up these syrups, which have -little or no sweetness of their 

 own. 



The next day, Mayor Merritt resumed the experiments with apple 

 jelly, to reveal adulterations. After reperforming the experiments of Dr. 

 Kedzie, he produced some jelly, home-made from pure apple juice, and 

 the mixture of iodine into it gave none of the dark color so quickly shown by 

 the adulterated samples. Tests were also made with pulp of an apple, 

 with the same result, while pulp of potato turned dark at once, because of 

 the starch it contained, as in case of the Chicago " pure " jellies. 



