LARD AND LARD ADULTERATIONS 493 



NOTES ON TABLK No. 22. 



This table presents the results of aii interesting study of compound 

 lards in which the natural hog grease is reduced to a minimum. 



Indeed it appears from the general results in some of the samples 

 that they may not have any lard in them at all, but lard stearine in- 

 stead. The high specific gravity, low melting point, high refractive 

 index, great rise of temperature with sulphuric acid, and high iodine 

 number, all point to samples containing a maximum quantity of cotton 

 oil or cotton-oil stearine. 



The chief variations from the mean of the specific gravity are shown 

 in Xos. 5569 and 5635. In both cases the iodine numbers conform to 

 the indications of the density. 



In one case (No. 5573) the melting point is very low, while the highest 

 melting point is (5638) a compound lard made for the Cuban trade, and 

 having, therefore, presumably a large content of oleo-stearine, and in 

 which we might expect the cotton oil to be present as a stearine also. 



The refractive indices reveal unmistakably the presence of a body 



with a higher index than pure lard, and the high temperatures reached 



[with sulphuric acid are a farther evidence that this substance is cotton 



oil. The iodine numbers furnish the rest of the evidence, showing the 



high percentage of this substance present in the mixture. 



The results shown in this table are much more satisfactory than those 



recorded in the preceding one. It is quite evident that some samples 



of Armour's lards might pass as pure hog grease, when the miscroseope 



fails to reveal crystals of beef fat, while none of the Fairbank samples 



1 could be thus mistaken. 



Miscellaneous Lards. 



'Cream Leaf Lard," brand of Charles G. Kriel; purchased in Washington, D. 



C. Affidavit of Walter L. Hill. 

 5.">5r>. "Choice Family Lard,'' brand of Kansas City Packing Company, Kansas City, 



Mo. ; purchased in Mobile, Ala. Affidavit of F. H. McLarney. 

 J55GO. " Choice Refined Family Lard," brand of Jacob Dold & Co., Kansas City, Mo.; 



purchased in Macon, Ga. Affidavit of T. Skelton Jones. 

 r>r>i;-'. " Choice Family Lard," brand of Fowler Brothers, Chicago, 111. ; purchased in 



Saint Louis, Mo. 

 557-1. "Cream Leaf Lard," brand of Charles G. Kriel, Baltimore, Md. ; purchased in 



Saint Louis, Mo. 

 5575. " Choice Family Lard," brand of Anglo-American Provision Company, Omaha, 



Nebr. ; purchased in Atlanta, Ga. 

 577. " Choice Family Lard," brand of George Fowler, Kansas City, Mo. ; purchased 



in New Orleans, La. Affidavit of E. K. Converse. 

 578. "Choice Refined Family Lard," brand of Allcutt Packing Company, Kansas 



City, Mo. ; purchased in New Orleans, La. Affidavit of E. K. Converse. 

 579. "Choice Family Lard," brand of Kansas City Packing Company, Kansas City, 



Mo. Affidavit of E. K. Converse. 



5580. "Pure Refined Family Lard," Plankiutoa Company brand, Milwaukee, Wis. > 

 purchased in New Orleans, La. Affidavit of E. K. Converse. 



