The nonpartisan leader. [volume], January 06, 1916, Image 11

About The nonpartisan leader. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1915-1921

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Breakfast Foods
Short Weight Also Found
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&y LiOJTlJ7llSSlOfl6f* Ladd In
Package Goods.
WHAT LADD FOUND
Sims Breakfast Food, made by the
Sims Cereal company, Minneapolis,
containing worms, 15 pents per
package.
Quaker Puffed Rice, made by the
Qut^ser Oats company, Chicago, with
pieces of coke and wood in the pack
age, per package, 15 cents.
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Walkers Pepsin Breakfast Food, |n
15 cents per package.
Wheotend, made by the Wheatena
company,, Wheatenaville, N. JM con
taining worms, 18 cents a package.
Diamond Sheaf Wheat Farino,
Fargo Mercantile company, contain
ing worms, 10 cents per package.
till#
the North Dakota Agricultural col- a wu ««, 1
lege, recently weighed, examined and, J?
analiyzed 55 kinds of cereal foods
sold in packages and purchased by
him in retail sfores of North Dakota^
Besides 18 brands which he
finds absolutely unfit for food, and
cent Roman Meal, 2.5 per cent Ral
ston Wheat Food, 1.8 per cent Cream
Hearts, 4.6 per cent Nutro Rolled
Oats, 2.8 per cent Holland Rusk. 7.1
per cent Scotch Brand Pearled, Bar
ley, 1.1 per cent Mother's Wheat
Hearts»3
Per
cent
fast
for each
Food Commissioner E. F. Ladd, relatively low in food value in corn
head of the pure food department of
lf)
cheer-up Break-
Food, 1.8 per cent Northern
Light Malt-O-Meal, 1.8
Northern Light Malt-O-Hleal, made ing informTtioI'"The TooY value is
by the Northern Ught Milling com- calculated in calories per poun.d and
pany, Owatonna, Mmn, unfit for food calories received by the consumer
because of worms, 15 cents per
10 CGnts Egg
Puffed- Rye' 42S5
found short of the weight claimed ..
,, Flakes, 914 Toasted Cream of Rve
on the nackaee. and besides numer- '_
on the package, and besides numer'
ous brands of extremely small food
value compared to the price asked
Dr. Ladd found, the six packages
described abouve, five of which he
comPar'sons
to the public in a special bulletin Dr. Ladd made the statement that
psr cent
Cream" Hearts, second sample, 4.5
per cent Walker's Pepsin Breakfast
Food, 3.6 per cent Diamond Sheaf
Wheat Farino, .4 per cent.
"The foods containing worms and
weevils are most likely due to im
proper care given by the retail mer
chants," says the bulletin.
Analyses Eye-Opener
The analyses to determine the nu
tritive value contains come eye-open-^
10 cents expended. The 55
samples range in calories p«r 10 cents
co
_t
from
323
made by the Western Cereal Mills Wheat, the lowest food, value in pro-"
contpany, Minneapolis, with weevils,
for
p0rti0n
Quaker puffed
to the cost to the consumer,
to Quaker Homi Grit with a nu
tritive value per 10 cents of 3000,
the highest in the list in proportion
to the cost to the consumer.
The bulletin gives 13 brands which
fall below 100 calories per 10 cents
in cost to the consumer, and these
brands, which follow, are therefore
parison
to their cost:
Jj, £68
Noodles'
866:
Q"aker
^ker
Corn
Puffs-
490 Shredded Whole Wheat, 874
Price's Corn Flakes, 994 E. C. Corn
letin'
"the
laxative
the sixth none too attractive on ac- taken into consideration in making legitimate to prey upon the consum
count of pieces of coke and wood in
it. The analyses of cereals given in the seemed perfectly reasonable to call
Cheated in Weights bulletin are signed by R. O. Baird. attention to such facts as I did
Dr. Ladd gives this information Some time ago in a food bulletin
of the food department, just issued, wheat at a maximum price of $1.80 *ancy Prices for products put up in
The 18 brands found short in per bushel is being retailed as a cer
weight and the per cent of shortage eal food in package form to tte pub
are given as follows: Quaker Brand lie at the rate of not less than $27
Puffed Wheat, 10 per cent Mar- per burhel. In repjy to this state
quette Egg Noodles, 1.5 per cent ment by the food commissioner, who living we mu know what we are
Cottage Breakfast Food, 1.1 per was calling attention to things the paying for articles of food we must
cent Pettijohn's Rolled Wheat with public should inform themselves up- know what they cost and in what
all the bran, 8.3 per cent Dr. Price's on in regard to the high cost of liv- form they can be procured most eco
Toasted Wheat Flakes, 13.5 per cen,t ing, an undated and unsigned cir- nomically. It is for this purpose
Cottage Condensed Wheat, 2.3 per cular letter has been sent out, at- that analyses and nutrition studies
Flakes, 790 Force, 953 Holland Rusk, tacking Dr. Ladd for giving out this
645 Toasted Rice Biscuits, 750 Kel-
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the bran foods," says the bul- says Dr. Ladd in a reply to the a-
action should be nonymous atack, "that is perfectly
in food values." er as long as it can be done. It
w^en
considering the high cost of
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when so
many
are paying
fancy containers often short in
weight or measure.
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are made of food products."
The person or persons making the
unsigned attack on Dr. Ladd's former
statement claim that in making the
comparison, he did of prices of the
raw product and the foods a? put up
and sold, no account was taken by
Dr. Ladd of "the scientist, whose
knowledge and skill transmutes raw
material into palatable, delicious
food,." The writer assumed appar
ently that Dr. Ladd claimed the fin
ished food products should be sold
at the same price as the raw pro
duct. In his reply the commissioner
continues:
"Doe3 it cost 1500 per cent to
transform a bushel of wheat into
such food product as puffed wheat?
No one asks that these food pro
ducts ba sold back to the people at
the cost of the raw material, but it
is perfectly legetimate for the pub
lic to ask what the cost of these ma
terials is and how much food value
they are getting for a given expendi
ture of money and which food pro
duct is the most economical. No one
denies but that the manufacturer
is entitled to a reasonable profit."
HIS OPINION OF CALIFORNIA
C. F. Batien, recently returned from
California, was asked how he liked
that country. He drew a type writ
ten paper .from his pocket and read
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at the alarm of a Connecticut clock,
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