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I made good jelly, but could not make any profit from it in competition 

 with the counterfeit goods on the market. 



N. F. Murray — I most heartily iudorse the paper by Mr. Patterson. 

 A friend gave me some of his experience in regard to selling pure cider 

 vinegar in Iowa. He found trouble in selling it. I had no trouble in 

 our town one year, but the next year I had the hardest kind of work 

 to sell it, for the merchants said that when they gave their customers 

 the pure article once, they would not be satisfied with the adulterated 

 article. In order to create a demand, you must have a supply to fill the 

 demand when it is created. 



E. T. Hollister — My experience is that the acid vinegar is so nice 

 and clear that city people prefer it. Cider vinegar makes a sediment 

 and they throw it out. The merchant will buy the article upon which 

 he can make the most profit. You will find it very difficult to introduce 

 the genuine article, unless you have laws compelling the dealer to sell 

 his goods for what they are, and not for what they are not. 



Mr. Patterson — I make six per cent vinegar. I carry bottles of 

 my vinegar to every house in town, and tell them where they can find 

 such vinegar at the stores. The people are more ready to make the 

 change than the grocers ; but the latter found that it made trade for 

 them to keep pure cider vinegar. In several instances they have sent 

 for the second barrel before the money for the first was due. The 

 consuming public are more ready for it than the grocerymen. I think 

 that even the city people would be more ready for it if I could reach 

 them in the same way. I think the time will come when we will supply 

 the whole United States. The gain for the horticulturist is small as 

 compared to that of the consuming public in being saved from the use 

 of injurious and poisonous chemical acids. 



J. C. Evans — I think Mr. Hollister strikes the key-note when he 

 says that we want laws enacted requiring the merchent to sell his wares 

 for just what they are ; and the only way to get the laws enacted is to 

 keep the subject agitated. Let the Society indorse this paper. 



Capt. Hynes — I move to indorse that paper of Mr. Patterson and 

 memorialize the Legislature to pass a law requiring the cheaper adul- 

 terated vinegar to be put on the market only under the proper name. 

 It is obtaining money under false pretenses to label these barrels of 

 chemicals " pure cider vinegar. " They have no right to sell a spuri- 

 ous article for a good article. 



J. G. Kinder — Shall we allow them to sell it, even under its true 

 name — why allow them to sell it at all ? 



Capt. Hynes — It might not be constitutional to prohibit its sale en- 

 tirely. Let those who want the cheaper article have it. 



