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The Bulletin. 



COFFEE AND COFFEE SUBSTITUTES. 



DEFINITIONS AND STANDARDS. 



Coffee is the seed of a small tree, cofifea, whose fleshy fruit is about the 

 size of a small cherry, and contains two seeds joined on their flat sides, 

 which when freed from the pulp and the enveloping membrane are the 

 coffee beans of commerce. 



Roasted coffee is coffee which by the action of heat has become brown 

 and developed its characteristic aroma, and contains not less than 10 per 

 cent of fat and 3 per cent of ash. 



The principal action or stimulating constituent of coffee is caffeine, 

 a white, bitter crystallizable substance. 



The principal material which is used to mix with and adulterate 

 coffee is chicory, though cereals and leguminous seeds, such as wheat, 

 rye, barley, beans, and peas are often used. Many brands of so-called 

 coffee on the market contain from 20 to 60 per cent of chicory. The 

 manufacturers of these products generally claim that the chicory is 

 added, not to adulterate, but to actually improve the quality and to give 



RESULTS OF THE EXAMINATION OF 





Qi 



2^ 



Material and Brand 

 from Label. 



13254 'Coffee and Chicory, Honey- 

 i moon. 



14198!Dixieland Coffee-. 



13280JCoffeo, Morara Brand 



12894 ....do 



14188,Coffee and Chicory, Good 

 Luck Brand. 

 Coffee and Chicory, Premium 

 Brand. 



13264 Coffee, Pure, Valri 



13260 Coffee and Chicory, "Norso- 

 lina." 



Coffee, Ground, Tokoco 



-...do 



13267 Coffee, Tokoco _.. 



13261:Coffee, Old Brazil Brand. .. 



Manufacturer or Wholesaler. 



Retail Dealer or Party Who 

 Sent Sample for Analysis. 



12896 



13278 

 13268 



American Coffee Co., New Orleans, Peedin & Peterson, Smithfield.. 



La. 



do Frank Foster, Asheville 



C. W. Antrim & Sons, Richmond, Thomas Grocery Co., Wilming- 



Va. ton. 



do J. L. Starkey, Greenville 



Aragon Coffee Co., Richmond, Va.. Roberts Grocery Co., Shelby... 



...do. 



.do. 



.do. 



13274 



13279;Coffee, Pure, Autocrat. 



Austin-Nichols Co., New York, 



N. Y. 



Bowers Bros., Richmond, Va 



....do... 



..do... 



Brazil Syndicate R. & B. Co., New 



York, N. Y. 



....do 



Brownell & Field Co., Providence, 



R.I. 

 Carhart & Bros., New York, N. Y... 



14192:Coffee and Chicory, Carhart's 

 ! Country Blend. 



14191, Coffee, Cook's Choice Brand. jCook & Harris, Concord, N. C 



13255!Coffee and Chicory, Danne- (Dannemiller Coffee Co., Brooklyn, 



J. Long, Greenville. 



J. M. Ellington, Oxford... 

 J. H. Newsom, Littleton. 



W. D. Thomas & Co., Warsaw.. 

 O. F. Brown, Winston-Salem... 



A. W. Norwood, Graham 



Eugene Johnston, Littleton 



Smith Grocery Co., Lexington.. 

 W. H. Turley, Wilmington 



W. P. Surles, Dunn. 



miller's 10c. 

 1289liCoffee, Choice Rio, No. 1 



N. Y. 

 J. T. Davenport, Morehead City, 

 N. C. 



Cook & Harris, Concord 



W. H. Adams, Dunn ^. 



J. B. Sawyer, Morehead City... 



