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NOTKS ox TABLE No. 17.* 



This table includes the analyses of nineteen samples of lard, which 

 both in pedigree and properties appear to be pure hog grease, taken 

 from those parts of the animal usually devoted to lard-making. 



Under the head of miscellaneous lards, there are other samples which 

 appear to be pure lard, but the evidence was not in all cases sufficiently 

 conclusive to warrant their incorporation in this table. 



Number and description of samples in Table No. 17. 

 Number. 



5550. " Pure Natural Lard," brand of Jacob C. Shafer & Co. ; purchased iu Washing- 

 ton. Affidavit of Walter L. Hill. 



5565. " Best Refined Lard," brand of G. Cassard & Son, Baltimore, Md. ; purchased 



iu Savannah, Ga. Affidavit of Isaac G. Haas. 



5566. "Leaf Lard," brand of Rohe & Bro., New York; purchased in Savannah, Ga. 



Affidavit of Isaac G. Haas. 



5591. "Pure Leaf Lard," brand of John P. Squire & Co., Boston, Mass. ; from manu- 

 facturer. 



5593. Same as above. 



5593. Same as above. 



5600. " Pure Unadulterated Lard," brand of F. Whittaker & Sous, Saint Louis, Mo. 



Affidavit of R. A. Hamilton. 



5601. (i Pure Unadulterated Honest Refined Lard," ftrand and affidavit same as above. 

 5606. " Best Refined Lard," brand of G. Cassard & Sons ; purchashed in Washington. 



Affidavit of Walter L. Hill. 

 560 J . "Pure Country Lard," rendered by L. Entriken, West Chester, Pa. 



5655. "Pare Leaf Lard," from Deerfoot Farm Company, Boston, Mass. Affidavit 



of Frank W. Bennett 



5656. " Choice Leaf Lard," brand of Charles H. North & Co., Boston, Mass. ; pur- 



chased of manufacturer. Affidavit of Frank W. Bennett. 



5656. No brand, leaf lard, of Niles Brothers, Boston, Mass. Affidavit of Frank W. 



Bennett. 



5657. "Pure Leaf Lard," brand of Sperry & Barnes, New Haven, Conn. ; purchased 



in Boston, Mass. 

 567'<i. Lard from head of hog, rendered iu United States Department of Agriculture. 



5673. Intestine lard rendered in laboratory. 



5674. Leaf lard, readered in United States Department of Agriculture. 

 5676. Lard from pigs' feet, from David Wesson, Chicago, 111. 



5679. " Pure Natural Lard," brand of Jacob C. Shafer & Co. ; purchased from manu- 

 facturer. 



In specific gravity 5655 resembles lard steariue. Pigs' feet lard, 5676. 

 should be considered apart, since no lard of commerce is ever made ex 

 clusively of pigs' feet. It represents the other extreme of specific 

 gravity. 



The highest melting point is shown by 5593 and the lowest by 5676. 



The highest color with acids was shown by 5656 and with silver ni- 

 trate by 5673. 



Judged by density alone, 5655 and 5676 would have pronounced adul- 

 terated, the former with stearine, the latter with cotton oil. The latter 

 sample would also be looked on as suspected by reason of its high re- 



* In serial order from page 140, part first. 

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