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FOODS AND FOOD ADULTERANTS. 



A nalytical data Continued . 



ANALYSES BY S. P. SHARPLES. 

 of sample. 



Price ' 

 per 

 pound. 



Bought of 



Character. 



9551 

 9552 

 9553 



9554 



9555 



9556 

 9557 



$0.10 Cobb, Bates & Yerxa, Dock 

 square, Boston, Mass. 



. 25 j M. A. "Williams, Tremont street, 

 Boston, Mass. 



. 10 Italian street stand, Winter street, 

 Boston, Mass. 



"Win. West, Washington street, 

 Boston, Mass. 



M. in -in. in <fc Cook, 2107 Washing- 

 ton street, ttoxbury, Mass. 

 . 20 C. F. Belcher, Cambridge, Mass. 

 , 15 Egerton, Bowdoin square, Boston, 

 Mass. 



Colored sugar. Colored with a red coal-tar color. 



Molasses chips ; of a bright-yellow eolor and very 

 crisp. 



Molasses candy. This candy was purchased of a 

 fakir on the street. It looked well when first 

 bought, but in the room softened and ran into a 

 solid mass. It had a light-yellow color and con- 

 tained a little flour and some grease. 



Stick candy. This was a white stick candy with 

 a hiight-red covering, which appeared to be col- 

 ored with a coal-tar color. 



Pipe candy. Colored with vegetable colors. 



Broken candy. Colored with vegetable colors. 



Broken candy. This candy was strongly flavored 

 with peppermint and otln-r oils. These oils seem 

 to have a decided influence on the polarization; 

 they are not removed by the. acetate of load. 



