May i t 1882.] 
THE TROPICAL 
AGRICULTURIST. 
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retailors own premises. This is bad enough, but is it a 
reason why Government Hhouid open the door to the 
foreigner so as to double or treble the quantity of 
spurious stuff with which our towns nud villages are 
already inundated ? Cheap and free are two grand 
words applied to trade, but on condition that they are 
not supplemented by the words nasty and adulterated, 
which legislation, during the past thirty years, has 
done its best to tack on coffee. H. PASTEUR, 
38, Mincing L.ane. 
London, 21st February 1882. 
Result of analyses of samples of coffoe purchased at various 
shops in and about London, February 1882, aii'l submitted 
to Messrs. G. W. Wignorand R. H. Harland, Public Analysts, 
of 79 Great Tower Street, City. 
N. B — In nearly every instance the article asked for was 
coffee. 
Number Estimated 
of Labelled. percentage 
Sample. of Remarks. 
Coffee. 
1 52 Adulterant, chicory. 
2 25 do. chicory and some so- 
oalled finings. 
3 A mixture of chi- 32 Adulterated with chicory 
cory and coffee. and probably dates. 
4 do 31 Adulterant, chicory and fin- 
ings. 
5 Specially prepared 
French coffee. 34 Adulterated with chicory 
and finings. 
C Taraxacum. 10 Dandelion and some chicory 
7 26 Adulterated with chicory 
and finings. 
8 21 Adulterated with chicory 
and dates. 
9 12 Adulterated with chicory, 
dandelion and some dates, 
10 37 Adultorated with chicory 
and finings. 
11 10 Adulterated with 90 per 
cent, of chicory, 
[containing some dates.] 
12 A mixture of chicory 
and coffee. 32 Adulterated with chicory, 
13 100 Genuine coffee. 
14 A mixture of coffee 
and chicory. - 47 Adulterated with chicory and 
dates. 
15 A mixture of coffee 
and chicory. 41 Adulterant, chicory and so 
called finings. 
10 7 Adulterant mainly but not 
entirely chicory. 
17 This compound con- 
tains no injurious 
ingredient. 57 Adulterant, chicory. 
18 A mixture of coffee 
and chicory. 31 do. do. 
19 A mixture of coffoe 
and chicory. 41 do. do. and finings. 
20 A mixture of coffee 
aud chicory. 38 do. do do. 
21 30 do. do. and dande- 
lion. 
22 54 do. do. finings. 
23 A mixture of coffee 
and chicory. 17 do. do. probably 
dandelion. 
24 A mixture of coffee 
and chicory. 28 do. do. and linings. 
25 Admixture in which 
no injurious ingro- 
dient hus boon iibod 14 do. do. at least 85 
per cent. 
20 A mixture of coffee 
and chicory, 37 do. do. 
27 26 do. do. and finings. 
28 100 Oonuiue coffoo. 
29 A mixture of coffoo 
and chicory. 68 Adulterant, chicory. 
30 A mixture of coffee 
and chicory. 50 do do. and probab- 
ly dates. 
31 A mixture in which 
no injurious ingre- 
dient has been usod. -14 Adulterant, chicory. 
32 23 do. do. and finings. 
33 39 do. do. and bo - 
called finings. 
34 A mixtore of coffee 
chicory. 10 Adulterant, chicory and large 
proportion of some other — 
probably dandelion. 
35 A mixture of coffee 
anil chicory. 10 Adulterant, chicory at least 
90 per cent. 
36 Date coffee. 57 Adulterants, roasted date 
and chicory. 
37 Dandelion coffee, none. Dandelion root and probably 
some other substances. 
The name* and addresses of the vendors, represented in 
the above table by numbors, are in the possession of the 
Analysts. 
H. Pasteur, 38, Min cing Lane. 
COFFEE ADULTERATION. 
(From a London Correspondent. J 
There is yet more to add this week to the subject to 
which so much space has of late been given in my 
letters, viz., the coffee adulteration question. As regards 
notices in the public press, they have been confined 
this week to Colonies and India, and, although aware 
that you received this paper and have probably seen 
the reference referred to, it may be as well just to 
quote it here before passing to my own experiences 
during the week relative to this matter. The paragraph 
runs thus : — 
" Strong as is the case of the sugar-growers in 
the colonics and of sugar-refiners at home, the case 
of coffee- planters and coffee-consumers is, perhaps, 
even stronger in their protest against the new Treasury 
order; allowing rubbish of all kinds, so long as it is 
called " coffee," to be imported on paying the same 
duty as pure coffee. Hitherto an additional duty 
has been imposed ou coffee mixed with chicory 
and on the pseudo-coffees which havo lately come into 
prominence : but now the admission of coffee adulter- 
ated to any extent with chicory, beans, sawdust, or 
any other trash, is to be allowed on the same terms with 
the pure berry. Surely the interest of the authorities 
in the health of the people, it not in the welf areof the 
colonies, is great enough to lead to the abrogation of 
this most impolitic regulation. The admission of spurio> 3 
articles of food should be placed under greater di-- 
abilities, instead of being made more easy than ever." 
There is an error in the above paragraph relative 
to the duties on coffee and these mixtures being 
identical, the pure bean paying only ljd per lb, while 
the latter are charged 2d. The difference, however, can 
in no way compensate for the disadvantage of coffee 
being exposed to competition with valueless com- 
pounds. During an interview with Mr. Thomas Dick- 
son this present week, ho informed me that a petition 
for consideration of this question has been signed by 
130 of the loading brokers and others concerned in the 
coffee trade. It was intended to have lent this to a 
certain Government Department, and to havo sought an 
interview with its head by a deputation, but it became 
known to those interested that that head is largely 
interested in a concern by which a cortain mixture is 
manufactured in Jersey. It was, therefore, tbonght to be 
impolitic to present the petition in such a quarter, and 
it has therefore been forwardod to the Treafury. What 
it* fate will bo there it i» impossible to say, but, as 
Mr. Dickson has seen rod the promise of co-operation 
