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eggs accompanied by an artificial cackle; adultered beer, adultered whis- 

 key, adulterated wines, adulterated drugs; cottonseed oil sold for olive 

 oil; honey mixed with glucose; lard containing caustic lime, starch, 

 steerin and cottonseed oil; peas colored with poisonous copper — nearly 

 everything which can be used for drink or food has been sold to the 

 American people in recent years under the name of pure food products. 



I embody herewith a statement prepared by the Department of 

 Agriculture and incorporated in the report of the Committee on Inter- 

 state Comerce of the last House of Representatives, which gives a list 

 of foods which are adulterated and the deleterious ingredients which 

 enter therein, and which also gives the articles which are introduced 

 into these foods merely for the purpose of commercial fraud: 



