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Now, that is perfectly possible in Indiana, gentlemen. If I were to 

 receive a letter that an Indiana rascal was furnishing stretched cream, 

 what would I do? Nothing. We have no laboratory, and I could not do 

 anything. We must have a laboratory or we can not do anything about it. 

 We could have the laboratory fitted up here in the State House. There 

 are plenty of fine rooms here in the basement. To the laboratory 

 the citizens could send at any time for analysis anything that they 

 suspected, and we could bring prosecutions and punish the offend- 

 ers. This would soon spread terror among the ofiienders. It will 

 cost about $5,000 to establish a laboratory, and it will cost about $15,000 

 to conduct it, which is less than the loss sustained in one day in the State. 

 Michigan gives $18,000 yearly for this worli, and Wisconsin gives $15,000 

 for the enforcement of this law. 



Q. Do you know whether they are stretching the commercial 

 flour in this State ? 



Dr. Hurty: I have not examined it. 



Mr. Mitchell: In our mills they have a machine for mixing 

 corn flour in the wheat flour, and they do not do it on the sly 

 either. 



Dr. Hurty : They know we can not do anything. 



Member : I understand they are making bran out of corncobs. 



Dr. Hurty : Are any of you acquainted with the jellies sold in 

 groceries ? It is nothing in the world but glucose that has been 

 colored red, and if it is sold for raspberry jelly there are some 

 hay seeds mixed up in it to simulate the berry seeds. Now, I 

 submit that is wrong and wicked. A little different flavoring 

 will make it quince jelly. 



Now I shall tell you how the Pure Food Law was gotten up. A Sen- 

 ator came to me and said he was interested in food legislation. He said 

 he had been trying to write a law, but found a great deal of difficulty 

 in doing it. I told him I had been studying the subject for twelve years. 

 We had some drafts made and sent one to Purdue, one to I>r. Walcott, of 

 Massachusetts, and passed finally what the British Health Journal said 

 was probably one of the best to be found anywhere. The benefit of this 

 law is that it gets the State Board of Health to pass laws establishing 

 .standards and specifying adulterations, Now, you know standards are 



