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The Bulletin. 



SWEET OIL AND SWEET OIL SUBSTITUTES. 



Sweet oil is olive oil. Any oil other than olive oil branded sweet oil 

 would be niisbranded. It is not correct to label cotton-seed oil sweet oil, 

 and elseAvhere on the label describe tlie true character of the oil. 



There seems to have been a difference of opinion as to what consti- 

 tutes sweet oil. The Department in 1911 made an investigation of the 

 subject and found that the only oil to which the term "sweet oil" may 

 be correctly ai^plied is olive oil. The United States Department of 

 Agriculture in food inspection decision 'No. 139 has since that time held 



RESULTS OF THE EXAMINATION OF SWEET 





Material and Brand 

 from Label. 



Manufacturer or Wholesaler. 



Retail Dealer or Party Who 

 Sent Sample for Analj-sis. 



13512 Keller's Sweet Oil, No. 10 Carr, Owens & Co., Baltimore, Md.. 



14105 Dill's Celebrated Sweet Oil, JDill Medicine Co., Norristown, Pa.. 



Pure Olive. I 

 13520 Gilbert's No. 7 Olive Sweet Oil.JGilbert Bros. & Co., Baltimore, Md, 

 laSn'Oilbert'sNo. 10 Sweet Oil | do... _ 



12899 Sweet Oil, Olive, Gilbert's No. • do 



10. 



12900 -...do. do. 



12901 

 12903 



12909 

 12910 

 12898 



13510 

 13509 



14107 



14104 



13516 



13513 



13515 



14103 



13522 



12902 



12904 

 1290fi 



.do_ 



Sweet Oil, Olive, Gilbert's No. 7 

 Sweet Oil, Gilbert's No. 10 1 do. 



Sweet Oil, Gilbert's Olive No. 10 do 



do... do.. 



Sweet Oil, "Red Cross" ...jlnterstate Commerce Co., Balti- 



' more, Md. 



Sweet Oil, McNeal's Standard. .jKent Drug Co., Baltimore, Md 



Sweet Oil W. H. King Drug Co., Raleigh, 



I N. C. 

 Sweet Olive Oil, Reliable iMcCormick & Co., Baltimore, Md... 



Sweet Oil, Absolutely Pure, do 



Reliable. 

 Sweet Oil, McCormick's Reli- i do 



able. 

 Sweet Oil, for Technical Use Owens & Minor Drug Co., Rich- 

 mond, Va. « 

 Sweet Oil, Peabody's Peabody Drug Co., Durham, N.C.. 



Sweet Oil, N. P. D.. 



Sweet Oil 



Sweet Oil, Standard - 



....do-. 



Sweet Oil 



Norman-Perry Drug Co., Winston- 

 Salem, N. C. 



John M. Scott & Co., Charlotte, 

 N. C. 



Standard Drug Co., Elizabeth 

 City, N. C. 



....do 



Terry-Taylor Drug Co., Norfolk, 

 Va. 



E. A. Williams, Battleboro. .. 

 Kings Mountain Grocery Co., 



Kings Mountain. 

 L. W. Parker, Mount Olive... 

 H. C. Joyner, Rocky Mount.. 

 Klein Bros., Morehead City. . 



Walter Credle & Co., Wash- 

 ington. 

 ._..do 



Gideon Pendleton, Elizabeth 

 City. 



J. H. Harris, Farmville- 



J. B. Pierce Co., .^yden 



Spence & Vinson, Goldsboro.. 



W. T. Buchanan, Sanford 



Ashley Home & Son, Clayton 



Shipman Bros., Henderson- 

 ville. 



M. T. Parham & Co., Gas- 

 tonia. 



J. H. & W. F. Low, Greens- 

 boro. 



W. E. Edwards & Son, Battle- 

 boro. 



Peabody Drug Co., Durham. 



Curry-Patterson Co., Maxton. 



F. G. Terrell, Belhaven. 



R. B. White, Elizabeth City.. 

 C. W. Stevens & Co., Eliza- 

 beth City. 



