338 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. West: There is nothing in my resolution in relation to 

 sulphuric acid. The determination of honest men should be to 

 sell honest goods without the articles being injurious to health; 

 but I am glad to learn one thing; if I need a tonic it is not 

 necessary to go to a doctor and have it prescribed, but I can 

 simply buy some of this adulterated syrup. (Laughter.) I do 

 not suppose any honest man, I do not suppose the gentleman 

 who has just spoken, will admit that it is an honest practice on 

 the part of any one. It simply shows what many will do, if 

 they have no law to restrain them. When I go to a man's store 

 to buy anything, butter, honey or anything else, and he knows 

 it is adulterated, and I think I am getting an honest article, 

 that man is dishonest. I should consider it a contemptible and 

 mean thing in myself. I would condemn the action of any man 

 who gets my money for anything that is not what it is repre- 

 sented to be or what I believe I am getting; a man might just 

 as well steal it. Now, another thing. Our resolution is not 

 very furious. These articles were analyzed by Pi'of. Kedzie of 

 Michigan. He says that in order to use those articles for food 

 a man would have to be tin-lined. I do not mean to say that 

 the people in Minnesota are selling this stuff. I am told the 

 man who wants it can have this adulterated syrup. I do not 

 object so much to this stuff being sold, if the men who sell it 

 will only tell those who buy what it contains. So far as honey 

 is concerned, it would be all right, if he would only put on the 

 bottle what the honey contains. But nobody would buy if they 

 knew it was adulterated. I do not wish to condemn anybody in 

 this resolution. 



Dr. Frisselle: In regard to adulteration, it is mixing some- 

 thing else with the article we call by the proper name. Now. 

 in regard to the adulteration of olive oil. I do not suppose in 

 the whole state of Minnesota you could find ten gallons of pure 

 olive oil, but it is made of or mixed with linseed oil, and that is 

 sold for olive oil. It is just as good; it is a vegetable oil, peo- 

 ple use it and it does no harm that I know of. In regard to 

 syrup. Almost all of the syrups sold in the grocery stores for 

 table use are glucose. There is not one specimen in a hundred 

 but what is glucose almost pure. As I stated before, it is made 

 of starch and sulphuric acid. The sulphuric acid is not all 

 taken out, it is there, but there is no harm done. Glucose 

 sugar, called grape sugar, is as good as any sugar. It does no 

 harm. It has less sweetening power than cane sugar. 



Mr. Theilmann: Lime does no harm? 



