138 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Mr. Ledgerwood moved that a Committee on Per Diem and 

 Mileage be appointed. Seconded by Mr. Pike. Carried. The 

 President appointed as such committee Messrs. Ledgerwood, 

 Pike and Olson. 



Mr. Legoe moved that the revision of premiums in Depart- 

 ment "N" be delegated to the Secretary and the Superintendent 

 of the Department. Seconded by Mr. McDonald. Motion carried. 



Mr, St. John moved that Rule 12, page 10, of the premium list 

 be revised to read as follows : "No exhibit can be taken away 

 from the grounds before four o'clock p. m. on Friday of the Fair, 

 without permission of the President recommended by the Super- 

 intendent of Department." Motion seconded and carried. 



Mr. Packard submitted the following report of the Committee 

 on the Adulteration of Foods : 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON ADULTERATIONS OF FOODS. SEEDS 

 AND OTHER PRODUCTS, AND LEGISLATIVE ENACT- 

 MENT RECOMMENDED. 



To J. C. SIMPSON, Secretary Department of Agriculture: 



Sir — The committee on the adulteration of foods, seeds, and other 

 products beg to submit the following report: 



The law requiring this investigation is included in Section Six (6) of 

 the acts creating the State Board of Agriculture, as follows: 



"It shall be the duty of the board * * * * to investigate * * * 

 the adulteration of foods, seeds and other products, and to report the 

 results of the investigation, together with recommendations of remedial 

 measures for the prevention of damage resulting therefrom." 



The committee engaged the services of the chemist of the Experiment 

 Station of the Iowa State College, Professor J. B. Weems, to make an 

 analysis of the common foods, a list of which will be found appended, to 

 ascertain the extent of the adulteration, the character thereof, whether 

 deleterious or simply fraudulent with intent to lessen the value of the 

 product without making it unwholesome. The report of the chemist is 

 submitted herewith. 



Later an arrangement was made with Professor C. N. Kinney, of 

 Drake University, for analysis of foods submitted to him, and the results 

 of his work are also shown herewith. 



Your committee has made a careful study of the testimony taken by 

 the committee of Congress, which has had the subject of a pure food law, 

 under consideration for ten years, in respect to the adulteration, mis- 

 branding and imitation of foods, beverages, drugs, and other products, 

 and even the most casual inquiry into the subject of the extent of adul- 

 terations leads to the conclusion that they are the rule and not the 

 exception. 



Lard and sausages of various kinds are almost never true to name and 

 seldom without adulterations. Syrups are largely mixed, though sold as 



