132 FOODS AND FOOD ADULTERANTS. 



Then the following advertisements appear, from which the names 

 have been stricken out : 



MANUFACTURER OF 



SPICES, SPICE MIXTURES, AND MUSTARDS, 



181 Street, N. T. 



Goods made to order for Wholesale Grocers and Druggists ; also, Grinding 

 done for Jobbers who pack their own Goods. 



Spice Mixtures and Cayenne Pepper a Specialty. 



17 STREET, NEW YORK, 



MANUFACTURER OF 

 ALL KINDS OF SPICE MIXTURES. 



My celebrated brand of P. D. Pepper is superior to any made. 



Samples sent on application. Goods shipped to all parts of the United States. Spice 

 mixtures a specialty. Spices ground for the trade. We are the Inventors of Suc- 

 tion Coolers. 



The firms advertising do not hesitate to call themselves manufact- 

 urers instead of millers. 



It is easy to see how difficult it must be to briog this state of things 

 to an end without some governmental action, it being improbable that 

 by any means of agreement among themselves the grinders of spices 

 could unite in doing away with the practice, or that any education of the 

 masses will teach them to refuse to purchase a ground spice at a price 

 which is far below that of the uuground article. This alone, the rela- 

 tion between the prices of ground and unground spices, is often suffi- 

 cient to point out the fact that a ground spice must be largely diluted, 

 and, on the other hand, when purchasing from a reliable dealer, a slight 

 increase in cost over that of the spice in its original form is fair evi- 

 dence of the purity of the powder. Those who desire pure ground spices 

 can almost always obtain them by paying their value. They are by no 

 means uncommon in the market, but as long as there are those who do 

 not know that it is for their interest to buy the best, rather than a cheap 

 article on account of its low price, such people must suffer or be pro- 

 tected by legal enactments which shall prevent and prohibit the exist- 

 ence of such mixtures. Until this is done the supply of a demand which 

 certainly exists may be considered to be, at the least, justifiable on the 

 part of the spice millers, and education of those ignorant of the state 

 of the trade must be the preliminary to legislation upon the subject. 

 When proper legislation has found a place on the statute-books the j 

 manufacturers will find themselves in a position where, without detri- j 

 ment to themselves, they can all unite in giving up the practice. Under 



