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1 82 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



business of putting up her goods in fine, attractive-looking 

 packages, and with some distinctive style of label, and follow 

 it up year in and year out, making the preserves as good as 

 she can, there is a market in this country for that class of 

 goods, and a market at high prices. I have in my mind a 

 lady who, through financial reverses,, was obliged to earn her 

 own living, and she began canning fruit in the very best pos- 

 sible manner, and putting it up in good style. When she 

 went out hunting for trade she found that it came slowly for 

 a number of years, but she was a persistent woman and kept 

 at it, and I know that last year she sold of the very highest 

 grade of canned fruit more than $25,000 "worth to Park & Til- 

 ford, one of the leading grocery firms of New York, and she is 

 selling to the leading grocers and families all over the 

 United States. She makes a business of it. She buys only 

 the choicest fruit that she can find, and even though she buys 

 the very best that the market affords, the faintest suggestion 

 of inferiority in what she gets is sufficient to cause her to 

 reject a large part of it. She will buy and pay a thousand 

 dollars for a shipment of fruit and throw away S600 worth 

 of it into the refuse market if the other S400 worth will only 

 give her the grade she wants. She wants only the very 

 choicest, and she will not buy any other. She has made a 

 business of it, as I say, and she has built up a handsome in- 

 come that many a Connecticut farmer would be mighty glad 

 to have. 



Secretary Brown. " Are cattle foods adulterated to the 

 same extent as human foods ? " 



Prof. WiNTOX. I do not think they are anything like to 

 the same extent, but thev are adulterated to some extent. 

 For example, we find cotton seed meal in which too many 

 hulls appear. In several of this class of foods the hulls are 

 used to help out, and while this may not be, strictly speak- 

 ing, adulteration, yet they are inferior goods. We have only 

 recently, during the last few days, found a kind of adulteration 



