I/O BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



FLAVORING EXTRACTS — WHAT THEY ARE AND 

 HOW THEY ARE ADULTERATED. 



By Prof. A. L. Winton, 



Of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Mr. Chairman, and ladies and gentlemen : After Mr. 

 Collingvvood had delivered his address yesterday I began to 

 wonder what kind of a man I was. First, I naturally sup- 

 posed I was a " Why man," but on thinking the matter over 

 I came to the conclusion that perhaps I ought to be in a class 

 by myself. And I think, perhaps, the name for me is the 

 " Oh, my " man, because of the exclamations which some 

 of these curious things have called out from the people. 



Now, it has been a question with me whether the ' Oh, 

 my " man belongs in' a farmers' meeting. I wanted to ask 

 Mr. Collingwood about this, but I had no opportunity. Some- 

 times I have thought that perhaps I did not belong here, and 

 that perhaps this subject was not suited to an agricultural 

 gathering, but on second thought I came to the conclusion 

 that the farmer was as much interested as any other citizen in 

 what foods were on the market, and that, in addition, he was 

 specially interested because many of these adulterated prod- 

 ucts compete with his own products. I think he is more 

 interested for the second reason than the first. 



It is not my purpose to go through this whole subject of 

 food adulterations. You have heard it many times at these 

 meetings. When we first undertook this work it was possi- 

 ble in a single short paper to describe about all we knew on 

 the subject, but now we find it is necessary to confine our- 

 selves in a short paper to one branch of the subject, and I 

 have selected for this occasion a branch which is not perhaps, 

 and in fact I know it is not, one of the most important 

 branches ; indeed it is one of the least important of the sub- 

 jects which we have to meet, but I have selected it somewhat 

 for the same reason that a storekeeper puts his best-looking 

 goods in his window, and because the products belonging to 

 this class are more striking than some of the others. If I can 

 interest you in some of the more striking forms of adultera- 

 tion I think perhaps you will take the trouble afterwards to 



