110 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



The people all over this Stete are buying this "stretched" cream and 

 milk. 



I have over two hundred samples of this kind of adulterant. This is 

 going on all over the State. I can find that "stretched" cream and milk 

 in our hotels and restaurants here. I can find it in South Bend and Terre 

 Haute, and the people are being SAvindled out of thousands of dollars 

 annually by this fraud. 



I hold in my hand a sample sent from New Castle by Dr. Brubaker 

 It is a substance for adulterating lard. After you have mixed this stuff 

 with the lard you can add water to it. You can add 25 per cent, of water 

 to the lard after this has been added, and the lard looks pretty solid. 

 You might suspect it, but as a rule the general purchaser, the working- 

 man's wife and the mechanic's wife, will buy this lard because it is one 

 or two cents a pound cheaper, and she is swindled. It is a mixture of 

 starch and gelatine and a little burnt alum. This sells for a very high 

 price; the men who make the stuff intend to make money out of it. 



If you go to the grocery to buy syrup or sorghum, the chances are that 

 it will be adulterated with glucose. Glucose is not an unwholesome sub- 

 stance, but if you are going to buy it you want to buy it for what it Is, 

 and not for sorghum or maple. Sixty-five times out of one hundred when 

 you buy maple syrup you are buying glucose. If you buy the golden drips 

 you get them mixed with a great deal of glucose. There is nothing in- 

 jurious about glucose, but you do not want to pay a good, big price for it; 

 if you want it you can go and buy it for what it is and not be swindled. 

 We have in this State one of the very best food laws of any State in the 

 Union. I have here the British Food Journal, and it is an authority on 

 the subject. It says this about the Indiana Food Law: 



"The food standards of the Indiana State Board of Health, which ap- 

 pear on another page, show that it is quite possible to lay down ofiicial 

 definitions of various articles of food, and the study of these regulations 

 may be of assistance to those authorities in England who are striving to 

 arrive at some form of order out of chaos, which at present exist in this 

 country in matters relating to food standards." 



This Pure Food Law of Indiana is probably one of the best that has 

 ever been written. The food law of 1899 passed in Indiana is one of the 

 best pure food laws we have anywhere. I have the honor to be the State 

 Food Commissioner. You ask me why this pure food law is not in force? 

 Do you not know that however good a locomotive may be it will not run 

 without coal? You may build the most pei'fect locomotive in the world 

 and put on the best men. and it Avill not budge if you do not put on coal. 

 Now, we have no coal to run this locomotive. The Legislature that passed 

 this law furnished no means to enforce it, neither did the Legislature of 

 1901. That is why the State Board of Health does nothing and why your 

 Pure Food Commissioner does nothing. I thought it might help us to pre- 

 sent the matter to you here. We are all being swindled right and left be- 

 cause we are not working for the enforcement of this law. 



