102 FRUITS AND FRUIT PRODUCTS. 



We have your favor of the llth instant and note contents. * * * One item 

 which strikes us as particularly incorrect is number 20218 (Table 30), which you 

 call cherry jam XX brand. This is our best brand, and we take extraordinary pains 

 with the goods. We use fresh fruit and granulated sugar only in the manufacture 

 of these goods, and your analysis says 40 per cent glucose. We do not use starch for 

 any of our preserves, jams, and jellies. * * Undoubtedly you have obtained 

 the samples which you analyzed from dealers in Washington. Washington trade 

 buys principally the cheapest grade of goods we make. We sell only a small amount 

 of such goods; we do not care to make and make no effort to sell them. We make 

 six different grades of preserves, jams, and jellies, each grade differing from the 

 other in quality and price. * * Buying up a lot of samples in a market where 

 a large percentage of low-grade goods is used, making an analysis of these samples 

 and publishing the result as indicative of the class of products we make, would be 

 doing us a great injustice. It would place us among a class of manufacturers to 

 which we do not belong. 



P. J. RITTER CONSERVE COMPANY. 



I desire to thank you for giving me an opportunity to correct your finding as 

 relates to my present output of fruit jellies. We are closing our jelly in an improved 

 manner these past two years or more, sealing it hermetically with paraffin, and thus 

 obviating the necessity for any germicide to prevent mold. We use no starch as your 

 letter, though not your analysis, \vould seem to imply. In closing I beg to 



repeat that we are now using no salicylic acid, and think your sample must have 

 been of a date of several years past. 



Very truly, Mrs. SARAH C. STONE. 



The jellies analyzed by you were prepared after an old formula, which was used 

 by a former superintendent of our factory in this city, but which has been aban- 

 doned by our present superintendent, and the goods now being put up under the 

 same label would show entirely different results by analysis, and we are informed 

 that no preservative is being used. We do not know that your Department objects 

 to the use of certain preservatives, but we have abandoned the use of them in the 

 preparation of all such articles as could be safely put up and sold to dealers in all 



sections of our country without. 



SPRAGUE, WARNER & Co. 



Your letter of the llth received giving us analysis of package of blackberry jam. 

 W T e think the analysis you have made is all right excepting the salicylic acid. This 

 must be a package of fruit put up about two years ago, as we have not used any 

 salicylic acid as a preservative for the last two years. We have been using benzoate 

 of soda since we abandoned the use of salicylic acid, as we find that this is equally 

 as good a preservative and the food commissioners have been allowing the use of 

 this preservative. We do not put any starch in any of our products, but we use 

 considerable glucose, also apples, for a basis of cheaper grades of jams and preserves. 



THE J. WELLER COMPANY. 



Replying to your favor of the llth, * * * we note in No. 20147 blackberry 

 jam your analysis indicates 34.08 per cent of sugar, while none of the other samples 

 indicate sugar. The fact is, we use the same quantities of sugar in all the different 

 fruits, the formula being made up of so much sugar, fruit, and glucose, and some 

 apple stock. These are compound goods, sold at low prices to meet the wants of the 

 masses of the people who can not afford to pay the high price that the jams com- 

 posed entirely of fruits and cane sugar would demand. We put out our best quality 

 of jams under the Dragon brand, and in these we use nothing but sugar and fruit. 

 We can assure you we use no starch whatever, so the starch must come from the 

 fruits and glucose. And in this connection would say we do not use a pound of 



starch in our factory as a thickener. 



THE WILLIAMS BROTHERS COMPANY. 



