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RECREATION. 



tried and has proved satisfactory: Boil 4 

 parts sugar and 3 parts water in a preserv- 

 ing kettle 5 minutes. Place selected fresh 

 fruit of uniform size and ripeness in the 

 boiling syrup and boil briskly an hour and 

 a half. Do not allow it to simmer or the 

 rinds will become tough. Remove from the 

 fire and seal at once. A pint of fruit, 2 

 cupfuls of sugar and a cupful and a half 

 of water make about a quart of preserves. 

 Kumquat oranges are often grown in pots 

 and are unsurpassed by any other species 

 as a useful ornamental plant. 



FOOD IN CANS AND PACKAGES. 

 The question of food adulteration is of spe- 

 cial importance in the Northwestern United 

 States, for there one* r must depend on canned 

 goods and such materials more than in 

 other regions for a large part of the food 

 supply. Much of the food for miners, herd- 

 ers and ranchmen must be preserved in 

 some way for storage and transportation, 

 and most of the towns have extensive sub- 

 urbs of tin cans. The prevailing use of 

 foods in packages and cans, while it pre- 

 vents the personal supervision insuring 

 purity and cleanliness, which is easy where 

 the markets are supplied from the immedi- 

 ate neighborhood, makes the general su- 

 pervision and control of food products 

 easier than elsewhere. 



j According to Professor Slosson, of the 

 Wyoming Experiment Station, the prices 

 paid in that State for foods are high, and 

 most employers pride themselves on send- 

 ing out the best foods in the market to 

 their herders or gangs of workingmen. 

 Unfortunately, the results do not often 

 match their good intentions, for it is as- 

 sumed that the highest priced, most ex- 

 travagantly advertised, and brightest col- 

 ored food products are the best, and this is 

 by no means the case. Some of the firms 

 which are most vociferous in talking of 

 pure foods, and in warning against imita- 

 tions, are really responsible, he believes, 

 for the worst goods on the market. 



"All enjoy reading the attractively writ- 

 ten and handsomely illustrated advertise- 

 ments which fill the magazines, and 

 we have a right to, for we pay for them 

 when we buy the wares. A manufacturer 

 sometimes sends out part of his product at 

 a high price under a name which, by expen- 

 sive advertising, has become a household 

 word, and puts the same quality of food on 

 the market, without his trademark, for sale 

 at a much cheaper rate. The price of food 

 products affords . almost no indication of 

 their purity or real value. 



"Most of the States have more or less 

 stringent pure food laws, and since all effort 

 to get a national law through Congress has 

 thus far failed, there has been a tendency 

 to unload poor or adulterated goods on 



those States which have not been so pro- 

 tected. Hitherto, honest dealers in this 

 State have been at a disadvantage, because, 

 while they personally wished to handle a 

 high grade of goods, they have been 

 obliged to meet the prices of less scrupu- 

 lous _ competitors ; and the public, in pur- 

 chasing, considers only cheapness, appear- 

 ances and taste." 



The Wyoming Legislature has recently 

 passed a law regulating the sale of foods, 

 drinks, drugs and illuminating oils. The 

 law does not restrict the sale of any proper 

 food or drink, but aims to prohibit the ad- 

 dition of ingredients manifestly injurious 

 to health, and' to insure that all foods, 

 drinks and drugs are truthfully labeled. 

 The chemical supervision of foods has be- 

 come so vigilant that there are compara- 

 tively few poisonous substances in use as 

 adulterants, and. it is surely working no 

 hardship on manufacturer or packer to re- 

 quire him to inform the customer what he 

 is buying and eating. Since. the foods like- 

 ly to be adulterated . are almost altogether 

 imported into Wyoming, the pure food law 

 should in that State be practically self en- 

 forcing. 



MOCHA COFFEE. 



"During the, past few years I have often 

 heard the assertion made and have seen it 

 in the newspapers in our country that there 

 was no such article as Mocha coffee," 

 writes W. W. Masterson, the American 

 Consul at Aden, the port from which 

 Mocha coffee is shipped. "It is frequently 

 stated that the term is purely a fiction, and 

 that what was once known as Mocha coffee 

 is so mixed with other coffees that there is 

 no longer a real Mocha. 



"In order to help correct such an im- 

 pression and to do the coffee merchants of 

 this place and the importers in our country 

 an act of justice, I wish to say that there 

 is such an article to-day in the American 

 market as Mocha coffee, that this coffee is 

 of the. same kind and from the same place 

 as the noted Mocha coffee of several gener- 

 ations ago, and that the growers and hand- 

 lers of this coffee are as particular in re- 

 gard to its quality and purity as they ever 

 were. r 



"At different times merchants have tried 

 to ship coffee from other countries to this 

 place and forward it from here as genuine 

 Mopha, but the city authorities have always 

 suppressed such traffic and have otherwise 

 assisted the merchants in keeping up £he 

 standard and good name of this coffee. ' 



"Knowing of the carefulness with which 

 the coffee interests are managed and the 

 government's protection over it, I am of 

 the opinion that if by the time the consumer 

 gets his Mocha coffee it is not pure, the 

 mixing has been done after it leaves Aden." 



