124 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I9IO. 



In South Dakota the Food Commissioner has recently sent 

 out a notice concerning various vegetable canning compounds 

 which are being sold in that state guaranteed and bearing serial 

 numbers and which are composed principally of borax. While 

 we have no knowledge that such a material is being sold at 

 present in Maine, it is well to be on the watch for such frauds. 

 It has been shown without question that borax is injurious and 

 it is unlawful to offer for sale goods which contain it. House- 

 wives are warned against using anything of the kind in home 

 preparations as vegetables canned with the aid of this chemical 

 would be dangerous to health. The use of such a material by a 

 food manufacturer is prohibited by the law. The fact that such 

 a preparation may lawfully bear the U. S. serial number does 

 not in any way permit or imply that it may be lawfully added 

 to a food product. 



All correspondence relative to the laws regulating the sale of 

 food and drugs, feeding stuffs, fertilizers, seeds and creamery 

 glassware, should be addressed to 



Director Chas. D. Woods, 



Orono, Maine. 



