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prepared for country trade, and where competition is lively, very seldom are up to 

 grade. A house in this city mixes ground flaxseccl to order for any price. We have 

 a good State food and dairy commission here, and they keep at work and get convic- 

 tions, but they have more than their hands full with the dairy work alone 



From R. Sauerhering, pharmacist, May ville, Wis. : 



No adulteration is practiced by our farmers, although sometimes stones are 

 embedded in a tub of butter to increase the weight, which hardly can be classed 

 an adulteration. It is clearly fraud. 



From D. L. Harkness, dairy and food commissioner, of Wisconsin : 



It is now generally recognized that the only way to market milk, and especially 

 where it is sold to cheese factories or creameries, is to sell it by the ratio of butter 

 fat that it contains. 



Selling milk regardless of quality for the purpose of making butter or cheese is 

 just as absurd as selling hogs by the dozen the same as eggs. The ingredient that 

 determines the value of the milk is the butter fat, and it is not only unbusiuess-like, 

 but unjust and unlawful, that a man who skims and waters his milk should receive 

 the same price for an article that contains but2i per cent as the man who delivers a 

 clean, unadulterated article containing 4 or 5 per cent of butter fat. 



If no tests are made of the milk received at a cheese factory or creamery, the only 

 gauge the manager has to follow is the number of pounds of cheese or butter that all 

 the milk delivered makes, and if he pays the different patrons on this basis, the 

 man who delivers good milk is paid no more than the man who previously removes 

 a portion of the cream and converts it to his own use, or makes it into butter and 

 sells it on the market. 



The use of the Babcocktest in the factory will remove this objection, and if pay- 

 ment is made upon the actual results of the tests, each man is paid for exactly what 

 he delivers, and, moreover, the farmer who persistently waters or skims his milk is 

 soon detected and is laid liable to the law for the deception that he endeavors to 

 practice. 



The standard adopted by the State, namely, 3 per cent of butter fat, is none too 

 high, and it has been the experience of the members of this commission that the 

 standard might be raised to 3 per cent and do no injustice to the large majority 

 of the patrons of our creameries and cheese factories. 



SUGARS. 



It is an open secret that almost every granulated sugar on the market is more or 

 less adulterated with glucose, if with nothing more harmful, and it is such gigantic 

 frauds as this that merit the attention of everyone that is interested in the adoption 

 of laws that will compel the huge corporations that put forth such necessary articles 

 of consumption to regard the health and legal rights of the public. 



DRUGS. 



In reviewing the various forms of adulteration the falsification and adulteration 

 of drugs can not be too strongly condemned. It should be regarded as a far more 

 heinous crime than the cheapening of some of the commoner articles of daily con- 

 sumption. 



We employ drugs only in the cases of direst necessity, and upon their action many 

 times hang by slender threads the lives of those who are dear to us. 



For instance, the doctor gives his patient a carefully calculated dose of henbane, 

 and not receiving the result that he anticipated increases the dose until he gets the 

 desired effect. Perhaps in this instance his patient recovers, and .the good doctor, 



