468 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Notices of judgment (U. S. Dept. Agr., Notices of Judgment 8^/6, pp. 8; 

 8'fS-8.'i9, pp. 2 each; S.IO, pp. J 6.; 851, pp. 2; vS.52, p. 1; S53-S5S, pp. 2 each; 859, p. 

 1; 860-866, pp. 2 each; 869-870, p. 1 each; 871-872, pp. 2 each; 873, pp. ^; 87^, 

 pp. 3; 875-876, pp. 2 each; 877, pp. 3; 878-880, p. 1 each; 881-882, pp. 2 each; 

 883, p. 1; 884-885, pp. 2 each; 886-890, p. 1 each; 891-892, pp. 2 each; 893, p. 1; 

 894, PP- -2). — These notices of judgment have to do with the misbranding of 

 molasses, macaroni, Mohawlj brand Neufchatel cream cheese, drug products, 

 sorghum sirup, " Uncle Sam autidyspei)tic breakfast food," bottled beer, cheese, 

 compound fruit jelly, asthma cure and blood cures, and sirup; the adulteration 

 of ]Maclaren's imperial cheese, desiccated eggs, crystal eggs, olives, frozen eggs, 

 turpentine, tomato pulp, corn meal, tomato catsup, frozen egg product, and 

 tomato paste; the adulteration and misbranding of vinegar, apricot brandy 

 and blackbeiTy cordial, orange flavor, a food product, orange extract, canned 

 tomatoes, Ozone vichy water, drug products, powdered cloves, vanilla extract, 

 and strawberry fruit flavor and raspberry fruit sirup; the misbranding and 

 alleged adulteration of vinegar; and the alleged adulteration of a drug product. 



Eig'hth biennial report of the dairy and food commissioner for the bien- 

 nial period ending- October 31, 1910, L. Davies (Bien. Rpt. Dairy and Food 

 Comr. Wash., 8 (1909-10), pp. 55).— Ot the 1,164 samples of extracts, honey, 

 spices, baking powder, condensed milk, breakfast food, ice-cream cones, and 

 other materials examined, 831 were found to comply with the law, while 333 

 were illegal. The work of the department, including dairy inspection, is dis- 

 cussed at length. 



[Diet of South American natives], P. Walle (In Au Pays de VOr Noir. 

 Paris [1909], pp. 26, 27). — Fish, meat, cassava flour, and Indian corn are men- 

 tioned as staple foods in this brief account of food habits and dietary customs of 

 South American natives. 



Cost of living in American towns, H. L. Smith (London: Govt., 1911, pp. 

 XCII+533, map 1; U. S. Senate, 62. Cong., 1. Sess., Doc. 22, pp. XCII+53S).— 

 Continuing work previously noted (E. S. R., 23, p. 169), extended studies were 

 made in 28 American towns on or east of the Mississippi River, their aggregate 

 population in 1910 being 1.5,488,140. 



The range of price levels for rents was found to vary greatly, being highest 

 in New York City. The prices of the principal foodstuffs, such as bread, flour, 

 meat, potatoes, and sugar, did not show great range in the different towns, as 

 was evident from the fact that when each article is considered in its relative 

 importance the lowest level is 91 and the highest 109, with New York midway 

 counting as 100. " If the towns are grouped geographically the New England 

 and southern groups show the highest food price levels, the Middle West towns 

 the lowest, the position of the New England towns in regard both to wages 

 and rents being here reversed." 



As regards retail prices of foods, the conclusion is that the ratio between the 

 United States and England and Wales is 138 to 100. 



" One peculiarity shown by the budgets is the comparatively small consump- 

 tion of baker's bread in the average American working-class family, the con- 

 sumption being 8^ lbs. weekly per family as against 22 lbs. in the United 

 Kingdom, the place of bread being taken in the United States to some 

 extent by rolls, cakes, biscuits, etc., on which the expenditure is about three 

 times as great as that shovpn in the average British budget. On the other 

 hand, the consumption of meat is much larger in the United States, and the 

 consumption of vegetables is also larger. The budgets indicate in general that 

 the dietary of American working-class families is more liberal and more varied 

 than that of corresponding families in the United Kingdom." 



