^2. MAINE) AGRICUIvTURAL DXPI^RIM^NT STATION. I909. 



Table showing analyses of samples of cider vinegar all found to 

 be 'pure and of lawful strength. 



m 



Retail Dealer, Maker or Wholesale Dealer 

 AND Brand. 



Total 

 Acid. 



Total 

 Solids 



Ash. 



7953 

 7954 

 7972 

 8030 



Twitohell-Champlin Co., Portland 



Cider vinegar. 



Twitchell-Champlin Co., Portland 



Cider vinegar. 



C. F. Dearth, Foxcroft 



W. S. Ham, Foxcroft. Cider vinegar. 



H. E. Houdlette, Richmond 



C. S. Libby, Richmond. Country cider vinegar. 



% 

 4.61 



5.03 

 5.07 

 4.47 



% 

 1.95 



3.11 

 2.10 

 1.25 



% 

 0.31 



0.40 

 0.35 

 0.43 



Rice;. 



In December when Official Inspections 6 was published, the 

 statement therein made that there was practically not a pound 

 of rice produced in or imported into the United States without 

 its being coated with glucose and talc, was true. Fortunately 

 this condition is being changed and it is now possible to buy 

 rice that is neither coated with glucose and talc or artificially 

 colored, but is a straight natural head rice. If the housewife 

 will insist that her dealer furnish her with uncoated rice, and if 

 the dealer demand uncoated rice from his jobber, it will only be 

 a short time before the adulteration of this staple will have 

 ceased. 



Alcohol,. 



In order to prepare many of the pharmaceutical preparations, 

 it is necessary for the druggists to use alcohol. It has been 

 suggested by a Maine chemist that because of the fact that the 

 alcohol thus handled was more or less contraband that it was 

 possible that the houses that were furnishing the Maine drug- 

 gists with alcohol were not giving them alcohol of U. S. P. 

 quality. Through the courtesy of some Maine druggists, we 

 were supplied with samples of alcohol which they are using. 

 This alcohol furnished by 5 supply houses was tested to see 

 how closely it corresponded to the U. S. P. standards. While 

 practically all of it carried traces of aldehyde when delicate 

 tests were applied, it was all of such quality as to meet the 

 U. S. P. requirements. 



