468 ANNUAL KEPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



able among these were 49 illegal samples of fruit products out of 

 5G examined, and 46 out of 125 flavoring extracts. The miscellane- 

 ous samples analyzed were chiefly those submitted by the Treasury 

 Department and others used in cooperative work with the Bureau. 

 Of the 5G samples of imported food and drug products only 4 were 

 found to be in violation of the food and drugs act. Besides the im- 

 ported samples taken from the Detroit appraiser's stores, samples 

 were also received from Grand Rapids, Port Huron, and Toledo. 

 Over 50 per cent of the 359 hearings were on flavoring extracts and 

 fruit products, at which approximately GO per cent of those cited 

 appeared in person. 



GALVESTON LABORATORY. 



The examination of imported foods constitutes the less important 

 part of the work of the Galveston laboratory. Wines, liquors, tinned 

 fish, oils, and canned vegetables comprise the greater part of the 

 entries at this port, and of the 81 samples examined, about three- 

 fourths were adjudged misbranded or adulterated. 



The 336 domestic samples examined were principally canned fruits, 

 flavoring extracts, cocoa, chocolate, spices, condiments, fruit juices, 

 fermented liquors, cereals, and sirups, of which about 43 per cent 

 were adjudged illegal. The territory from which these samples were 

 drawn is principally limited to Texas, with a few from Louisiana. 

 Oklahoma, and adjacent States. Of course, the percentage oi 

 samples found illegal is no criterion of the average of food products 

 brought into this territory, since these samples are selected by the 

 inspector as being suspicious. Instances of products dangerous to 

 health were rare, but cases of willful misrepresentation were not un- 

 common, particularly in the case of extracts artificially compounded 

 to imitate the genuine, about 54 per cent of those examined being 

 found illegal. About half of the fruit juices and 30 per cent of the 

 fruit products were also adjudged illegal. 



The hearings held at this laboratory on domestic cases have been 

 largely those accorded to retail dealers and are conducted almost en- 

 tirely by correspondence, owing to the distance involved. 



There being no other government laboratory in this district, a 

 number of miscellaneous examinations were made for the Treasury 

 Department, from time to time, in connection with the customs work. 



In addition to the regular inspection of samples, methods of analy- 

 sis proposed for cocoa, the determination of citral in lemon oil, the 

 determination of preservatives, and of color in whisky have been 

 tested, and analyses of oysters and water from the local oyster reefs 

 have been made in connection with the oyster investigations of the 

 Division of Foods. 



KANSAS CITY LABORATORY. 



Almost half of the 252 samples examined were found to be illegal, 

 the proportion varying from 90 per cent in the case of fruit juices 

 and nonalcoholic beverages and of fermented beverages to 14 per cent 

 for coffee and cocoa. Cereal, fruit, and saccharine products were the 

 principal articles examined. Of cereal products 77 per cent were 

 illegal, of dairy products 53 per cent, of flavoring extracts 50 per cent, 



