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ical Division of the Department of Agriculture? Is this division 
only one of the many laboratories established in the several States 
under the Hatch bill, or has it a work peculiarly itsown? I should 
answer the last question in the affirmative. The work of this divis- 
jon seems to me to be best illustrated by that line of investiga- 
tion in the work which has been published on food adulteration, and 
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_ through experimental studies of different methods of analysis and 
investigations of a more abstract nature intimately connected with 
- the problems of practical agriculture. The study of great problems 
affecting large industries, like those which have been made in the 
sugar industry, and the examination of questions affecting proposed 
_ legislation on agricultural subjects for the benefit of the agricultural 
committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives are some 
- further examples of the distinctions of the work of this division from 
_. that of the chemical laboratories of the various experiment stations. 
_ For a proper prosecution of work of this kind the Congress of the 
‘United States should supply a first-class laboratory with first-class 
appointments. The chemical laboratory of the United States De- 
partment of Agriculture should be a model which the various experi- 
ment stations might copy instead of being what it is, perhaps the 
- most poorly located and equipped of any chemical laboratory in the 
, country. Ina dingy basement, poorly Lethon: not ventilated at all, 
the chemists of this division are compelled to work, in the winter 
straining their eyes in an all-day twilight, in summer sweltering in 
. a tropical temperature. é 
I would earnestly request that the bill which is now before Con- 
gress for the building and equipment of a new laboratory be pressed 
- to an early passage, so that this division may be furnished with fa- 
. Gilities to continue more successfully the line of work which ‘has 
been marked out. 
COMPOSITION OF AMERICAN BEERS, WINES, AND 
CIDERS, AND THE SUBSTANCES USED IN THEIR ADUL- 
THRATION.* 
By ©. A. CRAMPTON. 
MALT LIQUORS. 
‘3 The production of malt liquors in this country as an industry is 
second only in importance to the production of breadstufis. Their 
- consumption is steadily on the increase, as is also the amount con- 
_ sumed in proportion to other kinds of alcoholic beverages. The fol- 
_ lowing tables are taken from recent statistics, compiled by the Bureau 
of Statistics, U. 8. Treasury Department, from figures obtained from 
official sources: + 
*Abstract of Part 3, Bull. No. 13. 
he + Statements Nos. 32 to 50, inclusive, of the Quarterly Report No. 2, series 1886-87, 
of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics. Government Printing Offiee, 1887 
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