42 Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. 1917. 



Standards are established that the amount in ounces of added wat- 

 er, sugar and starch will be required to be stated on the label. 



In this connection it is well to remember that Maine corn is 

 higher in solids and hence has a higher nutritive value than the 

 run of packed corn the country over. In an examination of 

 canned corn purchased in the open market it was found in North 

 Dakota that over a third of the samples contained less than 20 

 per cent of dry matter. In the samples here reported only two 

 fell below 19 per cent in dry matter and the average was about 

 22 per cent. 



CANNED SARDINES. 



There is no food product of higher nutritive value put up 

 in Maine than the small herring that are packed in oil, mustard 

 sauce or tomato sauce under the name of sardines. The fish used 

 are a different species from those packed in the Mediterranean. 

 But they both belong to the herring family and the fish occuring 

 along the Maine coast are as fine in quality and of as high nutri- 

 tive value as the true sardine. Maine sardines are, for the most 

 part, packed in cotton seed oil or in mustard sauce. The oil 

 packed fish are usually in "quarter sizes", with the net contents 

 a little less than four ounces. The mustards are mostly packed 

 in "three quarter sizes". Undoubtedly originally this was in- 

 tended to be a 12 ounce package but usage has somewhat reduced 

 (as in the case of nearly all tin packed goods) the size of the 

 package . The net weight of the contents of a "three quarters" 

 sized tin is a little less than 11 ounces. At the prices at which 

 these goods are sold there is no better low priced animal food 

 obtainable the country over. As pointed out on pages 51 and 52, 

 while there is still room for improvement, a great advance in 

 the quality and appearance of the finished product, and in the 

 sanitary surroundings of the factories has been made in the past 

 5 years. 



The results of the examination of nearly 200 samples are 

 given in the table that follows. 



