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varying in quality. The 
convert the.corn of the cou 
supplying thi 
ngry arm at the lowest 
price at hich a can be m sa ganar has 
shown that by the addition, of 1 a small — ty of 
alum a. saleable and, to all. appearan soun 
wacono bread ma; : be made with home of 
uali uch as would otherwise be 
panera fit for use N yr form of bread.” 
This is the true y to regard the gir 
Sounathing erp? he added to market flour in order 
palatable ; small quantities of alum 
e. But then we 
me. Hy syed kar 
nting 
to the Board ot Works of the 
upon | p 
nane a case within his own 
some persons had been accused of Se ciel, 
their bread with y a gentleman calling 
himself an analytical chemist (we wonder w 
“ Havi says Mr. REYNOLDS, 
trusted mata with one set of s 
which were ofici verified, whilst the cers 
were forwarded to Dr. LETHEBY ¥, the r 
our independent examinations coinci 
erorens th 
e 
whem 
report 
Holborn kredh by Dr. Grs medical 
thei 
pony x ~~ bags gaat the smallest Resita- S 
n joi ry ałum, the edito 
makes tho allowing a ea 
“ We do not propose here = discuss =e question} 
whether or not the use of a b 
co he 2 Ibs. 
quantity of alumina “arnt be a uric acid equivalent 
to from 15 to 30 um, oide to point 
out what will be the effect of taking this quantity 
of alum » and co es that alumed bread 
— be hi 
who eat it. a of reasoning, is 
concluded A E salt c a 
bread, and used with almost partir PEAN of oa 
must be Highly i injurious, beeause the chlorine or 
ium in a separa tate wou r 
GIBBON. indeed seems to have been aware that his 
argument oe a fallacy, for he admits that 
the alum e emical combination with 
the glaten of fhe, dou and therefore that its 
effects in b è less Sth e soaa than 
when administe oad in a pure he 
carried his c Apiay a little further, he would 
have found that the alumina, 
might be 
or, if that is 
y injurious to > the health of those | 
cere. to retain a portion of 
the we Ww. it usually undergoes. 
we hope that after these exposures ntle- 
ill be more cautious in what they say; 
not to be expected, that the public 
will pluck up courage and cease to believe in them. 
of foo 
Tue daily papers have lately announced that the 
ES IN Pants are suffering most seriously oat 
a disease that has attacked them, the natur 
which is not explained. One of our own Bra rres- 
pondente also wri rites :— 
“ I noticed a curious process going on the other 
day in the Champs Elysée a8 a Paris. They were 
chipping the bark off all t 
in 
3 
5 
of 
re) Š was to 
sects that affected the health of the 
trees, iid ther recovered their pr ne ina DE 
ful manner after this 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE, [Mar 16, 1659, 
m flour which is constantly | in flour, and which they have fancied to be alum, | side; the first is invariably “ai the 
Aage are required toj belonged originally to the Wheat from which the | very generally filled with a ‘ 
i flour was obtaine oLDS, of Leeds, foun 
wn knowledge in which | co 
per 
men who profess to guide the public in*the choice | ' 
which the perfect. insects escape, e 
scribes. ; 
What may be the best way of f denling wiit suit f 
formidable iini we con a lves unable to 
eir experience upon rec 
gluten; i i 
haveshown that the oe pasaia a effeet, Sn aae of the trees Tooked a if they ir ow PI 
maximum consumption of bread for a grown rye poll oa wii ri, tae doe ee eee 200_TRICHOPILIA CRISPA. | 
person) would cause inj jury to health, he mi might Doubtles T. omnind Tr. coccinea, exce: bifloro, labello 
with a te reason het shill: withébt saifliesneh ubtless these trees. are oe potas the little gine crispo atrosangui liolis . 
warrant, have inferred that alumed bread was | beetle called SCOLYTUS DESTRUCTO maculatis und 
injurious to health But his chemistry ha whose habits the account given many ede years since a et 
Said bas. sad bh ek cee Ce Oey a ACLEAY will be found in another | Horticultural S 
down, he z ep wre arena, column. The evil he bes to have at Sor. eats pa 
the ginte e flour into a kind of tough, tena- | 29t come to a h aris, and to its cure are | po ot at ae 
cious wash-leather, which is difficult of digestion, | ™ 18° iends applying themselves in th larly bet very strongly 
Here it may ik a oaa that | Way above described, concerning which we should # 
alum makes the gluten difficult of digestion? The | O° Very glad of more detailed information. For (| Although we distinguish it b 
oo ck: sist an dos cenait eir mode of cure is effectual we ought to adopt | venience, we fear it can be 
observation, but of reasonin g founded upon su here, where the Elm suffers quite as much as | than a sat at T kd 
posed - Wash-leather is difficult of diges- | *2yWhere except in the characters a 
tion: al gluten is a kind of wash aie al Nothing i is mor a to detect the pomno 
oe a. ned gluten i t tion, |9f Scolytus when he infests a tree. If the bark EM 
* Such are the arguments to show that z goer it will be papim be dled with |. tp ppears even now that Mushroom 
the public health is injured t alum in ‘the foll in vay wmgolar esias te chown in ae r 
making bread. The subjec wring onts call 
and : - ama hese 
berd i FAM i! l! di (77 fone moment say thàt all 
HI np Hf pin! ME a DE N ; on the eon 
ad! i Qik i fi > o @ j have h places, 
Po}! fe" 98 oe i through having a large family or through 
ò i ; a years—if 
ii of them never saw a 
o i advice I have to ob to 
: 5 à i I write, A oa be plain 
fs ] H y ions 
4 $ |i and A adeant y y Mushr 
@ ! 
$ © | In my 2 o on Market 
l xplained the pr 
b G { quiries rp as ir a M 
o f y i 
$ ` H without a Quaere head on them), I 
è j two in 
o © , o i ever since last November. They are under & 
| E : pit, just high enough to permit 
6 "6 | the middle. The beds are on 
a „ eaz int ye dietetica] terrorists ! kirane i F o 2 E het Sitio’, bat the glass on the 
"Those nash as netessary in 
mean no one can mistake. He that sayo them is | The holes are the places sä ence new born Paes Rept damp we hirer bs 
ee one whose ate. Se knowledge no one is en insects have cacaped, and by au gs mg S females | 20w and then, 
nant t seems that after all the Daaa arman ee dorit tee iam aot 
And sọ 1 aoa re may no ou 
um in brea T isise kA a aarp ptaki into apr DA ece of bark thus drilled with holes is pE arati 5s. per 
d ceases to ws | When i thst the dite next the wood can be Mi mr 
anes gm we have an appearance quite another | T. have here is 
sce a Ane doep irregular furrow is observed, | and consists of 
f other irregular lines 33 on either | and be it remembered 
