LARD AND LARD ADULTERATIONS. 479 



[Affidavit to accompany Nos. 5662-66.] 



I hereby certify that certain samples of lard, numbered two to six inclusive, and 

 marked "From C. II. S. Mixer, Chicago, 2-8-88," were prime steam lard, and of 

 the quality known as standard lard by the Board of Trade of the city of Chicago. 

 Said samples were from five different lots of lard, and were made by as many differ- 

 ent packers, and the samples fairly represented the different lots from which they 

 were taken. The said five samples of lard were drawn on the eighteenth day of Feb- 

 ruary last, and were on the same day shipped per express and were addressed to 

 "Prof. Sharpless, Riggs House, Washington, D. C." 



C. II. S. MIXKK, 

 Chief Inspector of Provisions, Chicago Board of Trade. 



Personally appeared C. H. S. Mixer, signer of the foregoing statement, who made 

 solemn oath to the truth of the same, this fifth *ay of March, 1888. 



R. S. WORTHIXGTON, 



Notary Public. 



[Affidavit to accompany No. 5610. | 



STATE OF ILLINOIS, 



Cook County, ss : 



Geo. H. Webster, being first duly sworn, on oath deposes and says, that he is a 

 member of the firm of Armour & Co.., doing business in the city of Chicago, Cook 

 County, Illinois, and that ho makes this affidavit on behalf of himself and his co- 

 partners in said firm ; that he has seen and knows the five pound tin of lard which is 

 herewith submitted to Dr. H. W. Wiley, chemist of the Department of Agriculture 

 of the United States, for analysis, and that the same was manufactured by the said 

 firm of Armour & Co., in accordance with their regular formula for the manufacture 

 of refined lard for foreign trade. 



GEO. II. WEBSTKR. 



Sworn and subscribed to before me this llth day of February, 1838. 



CHARLES F. LANGDON, 

 Notary Public in and for Cook Co., Ills. 



