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gets cold, or, if }ou can't do that, at least not more than two 

 days before you use it. Coffee begins to deteriorate the 

 moment it is roasted. 1 don't care how you keep it, even 

 in an air-tight can, it begins to lose its Havor. 



We consume more coffee per head than any country. 

 England is the great tea-drinking country, drinking about 

 nine times as nuich per head as we do. We are a great 

 sugar-consuming people, over 70 pounds per head in the 

 United States, to 8 pounds in Russia and 7 pounds in Spain. 

 England is the only country that uses more sugar, and she 

 doesn't consume it, but makes it into marmalades and such 

 things, and sells it to us. We eat the sugar, and they get 

 the credit in the market, of course. 



These are some of the points where the farmer is greatly 

 touched by the practice of adulteration. I don't need to 

 extend these illustrations. I might mention a hundred of 

 them, but these are sufficient for illustration. 



I ^vant tt) refer to some of the other evils which are 

 equally as important in m}- point of view, yiz., the effect 

 upon the health. Now, your chairman was kind enough to 

 say that I didn't exhibit any signs of having been injured by 

 these adulterated foods, but I can give him instances where 

 people have been injured. You know there are some people 

 so happily constituted that they can digest anything, and 

 therefore they are not to be taken as examples of what may 

 happen to others. I had an application a while ago from a 

 man who Avished to be put upon my experimental table. 

 It read like this : — 



Deak Sik: — I would like to get a position on your table. 

 1 have a stomach that can hold anything. 1 have eighteen 

 diseases. Fifteen years ago the doctors said I couldn't live five 

 years, and I am still alive. Now, if you want a man that can 

 eat anything, wliy, I am the man you want. 



Yours respectfully. 



And I am a good deal like that myself; I have an active 

 secretion of pepsin that can dissolve almost anything that 

 goes into my stomach ; but that isn't the case with every- 

 body, unfortunately. 



