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The Bulletin. 



FLOUR. 



Flour is the fine, clean, sound product made by bolting wheat meal 

 and contains not more than 13.5 per cent of moisture, not less than 

 1.25 per cent of nitrogen, not more than 1 per cent of ash, and not 

 more than 0.50 per cent of fiber. 



Flour is the most extensively used food product in this country, 

 and bread made from pure wheat flour is far more nutritious and 

 more nearly a perfect food than is generally supposed by mosi 

 persons. 



Very little adulteration is found in flour, except the bleaching oi 

 it by the use of nitrogen peroxide, a poisonous gas. A food product 

 is adulterated: If it be mixed, colored, bleached, powdered, coated 

 or stained in a manner whereby damage or inferiority is concealed, 

 or if it contains any added poisonous or other added deleterious ingre- 

 dient which may render such article injurious to health. 



Investigations have shown that in the bleaching of flour by the 

 Alsop process both classes of adulteration exist. The bleaching 

 agent, nitrogen peroxide, is a poisonous substance and is left in 

 the flour after the bleaching is completed. By bleaching, low grade 

 flours are made to appear like high grade products, the appearance 

 of them being improved without improving their quality. The Alsop 

 Process Company, which owns the patent right for the bleaching 

 process, has made the greatest effort possible to prevent food officials 

 from enforcing the law against the bleaching of flour. They have 

 employed, at tremendous cost, the very best scientific and legal 

 talent that is to be had in this country, but the officials have so 

 far won in every case tried, the most important of which is the one 



RESULTS OF THE EXAM 





Material and Brand 

 from Label. 



7024 Flour, Star. 



7025 Flour, Purity. 



7026 Flour, All Wheat. 



7027 Flour, White Lily. 

 7028Flour, Hlco. 



7029 Flour, Morning Star. 

 7030 Flour, White Lily ... 



7031 Flour. Daisy 



7032, Flour. Perfection 



7033Flour. Snow Bird — 



Manufacturer or Wholesaler. 



Retail Dealer or Party Who 

 Sent Sample for Analysis. 



W. A. Watson, Greensboro W. A. Watson, Greensboro 



..do -- do - 



Hlco Milling Co., Burlington, N.C. H. M. Love & Son, Burlington 



Dixie Mills, Burlington, N. C -.do 



Hlco Milling Co.. Burlington. N.C do 



Holt-Granite Flouring Mills, Haw 1 do 



River, N. C. 1 , ,^ ^ _ . 



Harmon & de Rundeau, Crlmora, M. V. Lawrence, Durham. 



Va. ! 

 Berrvville Milling Co., Berryville, ( do 



Va. 

 Williams Bros. Co., Kent, Ohio ...I do 



Statesville Flour Mills, Statesvllle, do. 



N. C. 



