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Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. 1920. 



Vinegar. 



Used alone under the Maine Pure Food Law vinegar is a 

 product made from apple cider without addition. A good well 

 made cider vinegar will carry from 5 to 6 per cent of acetic 

 acid. A vinegar carrying 4 per cent acetic acid is of lawful 

 strength. As a vinegar carrying 4 per cent is lawful it has 

 come about that the large makers of vinegar reduce their prod- 

 uct to about four per cent by the addition of water. This is an 

 adulteration but is allowed provided the vinegar is properly 

 labelled to show that this manipulation has been made. In the 

 tables that follow the samples of vinegar are grouped into 

 classes as shown by laboratory examination. It is possible, but 

 not likely, that in the group "Cider vinegar reduced to standard 

 strength by addition of water," there are included samples of 

 poorly made cider vinegar. 



Unadulterated Cider Vinegar. 



Table showing the results of the analyses of samples of 

 pure well made cider vinegars purchased in ipip. These sam- 

 ples were high in acid content (about 5 per cent) and were well 

 made cider vinegars that had not been reduced. They were 

 worth a fourth more than the reduced vinegars. 



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Town and Retail Dealer. 



Brand and Wholesale Dealer. 



19311 

 19407 

 19341 

 19374 

 19383 

 19373 

 19348 

 19397 

 19355 



Augusta. L. S. Young "Pure Cider Vinegar." Leland 



Block, Oakland. 



Bath. H. W. Crossman "Pure Cider Vinegar." H. J. 



Heinz & Co., Boston. 



Bath. Cut Price Market "Pure Cider Vinegar." Bottled by 



E. W. Balch, Portland. 

 "Cider Vinegar." C. S. Stickney, 



Brownville. 

 "Pure Cider Vinegar." Own make. 



"Pure Cider Vinegar." Charles F. 

 Deorth, Poxcroft. 



"Pure Cider Vinegar." Bought of 

 unknown farmer. 



"Pure Cider Vinegar." Wm. Pills- 

 bury. 



"Pure Cider Vinegar." Own make. 



Brownville. A. A. Price 



E. New Portland. Pred Walton 



(Town not given). M. G. Brackett Co.. 



Lewiston. E. B. Palmer & Co 



Portland. Geo. 0. Shaw 



Waterville. H. E. Pomealeau 



