478 FOODS AND FOOD ADULTERANTS. 



lard on baud at their manufactory in Chicago for sale to the domestic and foreign 

 trade ; that the accompanying package of refined lard in the original can marked 

 " II " was taken from the stock of the said firm on hand at the said manufactory, and 

 is the same as that sold regularly by the said firm in the domestic and foreign mar- 

 kets as refined lard; that the said package was taken at random from the said stock 

 without special selection, and that all of said stock is alike as to composition and 

 quality as that usually and regularly sold in the domestic and foreign markets by the 

 said fi 7 i and known as refined lard ; that the said package was immediately fastened 

 up, sealed, and marked "H" by this deponent, and that no ingredient or thing has 

 been added to or extracted from the same ; and deponent further says that the .said 

 package is a true, genuine, and fair sample of the refined lard as regularly made and 

 sold by the said firm, and that it was not specially prepared for testing, analysis, or 

 exhibition purposes, and that it is in every sense a genuine sample of refined lard. 



CAUL DKEIER. 



Sworn to before me this 16th day of February, 1888. 



ALFRED JUNTZTH, 

 Notary Public, New York County. 



[Affidavit to accompany Nos. 5550, 5551, and 5552.1 



I, Walter L. Hill, on oath affirm and declare that I purchased on the seventh day 

 of February, A. D. 1888, in the city of Washington, D. C., in the open market, the 

 following packages of pail lard and paid for the same the price set against the re- 

 spective items ; that the names of the parties in whose places of business the same 

 were purchased were as follows, to wit : 



One (1) three (3) pound pail of lard, marked "Jacob Schaefer, & Co., Baltimore. 

 Pure natural lard, bought of Henry W. Kem & Co., No. 12 Centre Market, Washing- 

 ton, D. C., price thirty-five (35) cents." 



One (1) three (3) pound pail of lard, marked "Chas. (J. Kriel, cream leaf lard, 

 Baltimore, price thirty (30) cents;" bought of Jas. Schneider, No. 529 Centre Market, 

 Washington, D. C. 



One (I) three (3) pound pail of lard, marked "Armour & Co., pure refined family 

 lard, Chicago," bought of E. C." Ford & Son, No. 609 Cent re* Market, Washington, 

 D. C. ; price thirty-five (35) cents. 



And I, the said Hill, further on oath affirm and declare, that 1 likewise purchased 

 on the eighth day of February, A. D. 1888, in the said city of Washington, in the 

 open market, the following package of pail lard and paid for the same the price set 

 against the said item, and that the name of the party in whose place of business tho 

 same was purchased is as follows, to wit : 



One (1) five (5) pound pail of lard, marked " G. Cassard fe Son, best relim-d lard, 



Baltimore," with a star, viz., <C\ bought of Hume, Cleary & Co., No. 807 



sylvania avenue, Washington, D. C. ; price fifty-five (55) cents. 



That I took said samples and delivered them to Professor S. P. Sharpless in I In- 

 original packages, as purchased, and that the same Avere not in way tampered with 

 by me. 



W. L. HILL. 



CITY OF WASHINGTON, 



District of Columbia, ss. 



ai)d8,\vora to IH'oro me this til' 1 l"th day <>(' February, A. 1 >. 1*88. 



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