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of an inert earth would not prove financially profitable. The weight of 

 the evidence is against the theory of such an admixture. Inasmuch as 

 a mineral coloring- matter was found in this sample, it may be that the 

 high percentage of ash can be traced to this source. 



In nearly all the samples it is noticed that sucrose forms the bulk of 

 the saccharine matter. In such a sample as No. 158 there is apparently 

 a mixture of a gum with a small quantity of sucrose and a large quan- 

 tity of flour. 



In No. 175 there is probably a mixture of starch with dextrose or milk 

 sugar and a little sucrose. 



In only one other case, No. 174, does the percentage of sucrose drop 

 below 50. lii all the other cases the chief part of the substance is 

 sucrose, with the additions of small portions of glucose starch or flour, 

 coloring and flavoring extracts. 



NOTK BY MR. HUSTON. Samples of red and yellow coloring for candies were 

 obtained. The red was a preparation of cochineal, and the yellow was a sirup sat- 

 urated with a fluorescent coal-tar product. Many of the pink and yellow candies 

 gave fluorescent solutions. No indication of lead was found in any of the yellow 

 candies. 



ANALYSES BY H. H. NICHOLSON. 



All the samples contained organic coloring matter. Two of them 

 contained a fluorescent pigment. Seven of them had large quantities 

 of starch, four contained starch and gum, and fourteen were entirely 

 soluble in cold water. Eighteen of the samples were mixed with glu- 

 cose, or some similarly polarizing sugar. 



Samples 1813, 1814, 1816, 1819, and 1828 were composed chiefly of 

 gums. The composition of Nos. 1806 and 1807 is not sufficiently indicated 

 by the analytical data. The principal part of all the other samples is 

 sucrose. 



Some of the samples contained large quantities of water, notably 

 Nos. 1814, 1822, 1824, 1829, and 1830. Only one appears with ash above 

 1 per cent, viz, No. 1816, and the amount in this sample is too small to 

 suggest any adulteration with an inert earth. 



The percentages of reducing sugars were doubtless chiefly derived 

 from the glucose used in the process of manufacture, or partly from the 

 low-grade sugars employed. 



ANALYSES BY W. B. RISING. 



Nine of the samples contain notable quantities of starch and gum in- 

 soluble in pold water, the largest quantity being in No. 110, a stick 

 candy colored red, and selling for 2Q cents a pound. 



The smaller quantities of starch found in many of the other samples 

 doubtless is incorporated there from the starch or flour used to prevent 

 sticking during the process of manufacture. One sample, No. 112, 

 labeled "guin drops," is almost pure confectioners' glucose, containing 

 only 13.3 per cent of added sugar. 



