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holding 26 ounces. Branded "Pure maple sirup, Vermont 

 Sugar Orchards, bottled by S. S. Pierce Co., importers and 

 grocers, Boston, Mass. Guaranteed under the Food and Drug 

 Act, June 30, 1906, No. 3336." 



7571. Purchased May 14, 1907 from John W. Deering & 

 Son, 576 Congress St., Portland. Selling price 40c. a quart. 

 Packed in one gallon cans branded "Warranted Pure Maple 

 Sirup made by Luke Colby, Lunenburg, Vermont." 



7572. Purchased May 14, 1907 from Libby & Chipman, 574 

 Congress St., Portland. Selling price 30c. a quart. Put up in 

 one gallon cans branded "Pure maple sirup manufactured by the 

 latest process and guaranteed strictly pure, season of 1907. 

 Lewis E. King, Lunenburg, Vermont." 



7575. Purchased May 15, 1907 from Charles H. Lombard, 

 47 and 49 Portland St., Portland. Selling price 18c. a pint. 

 Put up in one gallon cans branded "The contents of this package 

 are warranted to be fine maple product from Porter Smith, 

 Lunenburg, Vermont." 



7580. Sample given May 15, 1907 by W. W. Riggs and L. S. 

 Wilbur, Boston & Maine Wharf, Commercial St., Portland. 

 Selling price not stated. The package was branded, "Pure 

 maple sirup put up by S. T. Noyes, Hilltop Farm, Colebrook r 

 N. H." 



Sirup Below Standards in Solids. 



(The maple sirups included in this class were sold as pure 

 maple sirups and did not carry any foreign sugars They were 

 adulterated only in the sense that they fell below the standards 

 in solids. Maple sirup to be up to the standard must not contain 

 more than 35 per cent of water or in other words must have not 

 less than 65 per cent of solids.) 



7516. Purchased April 29, 1907 from Staples & Griffin, 55-59 

 Pickering Square, Bangor. Selling price 30c. a quart. Made 

 by F. E. McCard, East Corinth, Maine. Goods were sold as 

 pure maple sirup but were found to carry more water than the 

 standards allow and carried only 62.J per cent solids. 



7522. Purchased April 30, 1907 from F. L. Frank & Co., 115 

 State St., Bangor. Selling price 30c. per bottle holding 16 

 ounces. Sold for pure maple sirup. Branded as follows : 

 "Rival Brand Pure Maple Sap Sirup put up expressly for 



