The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, January 6, 1916, Page 11

' ’ AR L “1 A e pa— e X e i ~ A i At el P32 0 B _~-~_..A,._ - Get Worms With Breakfast Foods Short Weight Also Found By Commissioner Ladd In Package Goods. WHAT LADD FOUND Sims Breakfast Food, made by the Sims Ccreal company, Minneapolis, containing worms, 15 gents per package. Quaker Puffed Rice, made by the Quiier Oats company, chu:ago. with pieces of coke and wood in the pack- age, psr package, 15 cents. Northern Light Malt-0-Meal, made by the Northern Light Milling com- pany, Owatonna, Minn., unfit for food because of worms, 15 cents per package. Walker’s Pepsin Breakfast Food, . made by the Western Cereal Mills company, Minneapolis, with weevnls, 15 cents per package. Wheatena, made by the Wheatena company, Wheatenaville, N. J., con- taining worms, 18 cents a package. Diamond Sheaf Wheat Farino, _ Fargo Mercantile company, contain- ing worms, 10 cents per package. Food Commissioner E. F. Ladd head of the pure food department of the North Dakota Agricultural col- lege, recently weighed, examined and, analiyzed 55 kinds of cereal foods sold in packages and purchased by him in retail stores of North Dakota. Besides 18 brands which he found short of the weight claimed 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 finds absolutely unfit for food, and the sixth none too attractive on ac- count of pieces of coke and wood in, it. Cheated in Weights Dr. Ladd gives this information to the public in a special bulletin " of the food department, just issued. The 18 brands found short in weight and the per cent of shortage are given as follows: 'Quaker Brand Puffed Wheat, 10 per cent; Mar- quette Egg Noodles, 1.5 per cent; Cottage Breakfast Food, 1.1 per cent; Pettijohn’s Rolled Wheat with all the bran, 8.3 per cent; Dr. Price’s Toasted Wheat Flakes, 13.5 per cent; Cottage Condensed Wheat, 2.3 per PR Ao T | Fr R SR B i TS 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; Cheer-Up Break- fast Food, 1.8 fper cent; Northern Light Malt-O-Meal, 1.8 per 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-oren- ing information. The food value is calculated in calories per pound and calories received by the consumer for each 10 cents expended. The 5§ samples range in calories per 10 cents in co.t from 323 for Quaker Puffed Wheat, the lowest food, value in pro-- portion to the cost to the consumer, to Quaker Hominy Grits, with a nu- tritive value per 10 cents of 3600, the highest in the list in propprtion 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 » relatively low in food value in com- parison to their cost: Quaker Puffed Wheat, 323 calories for 10 cents; Egg Noodles, 866; Egg Noodles, second sample, 895; Quaker Puffed Rye, 425; Quaker Corn Puffs, 490; Shredded Whole Wheat, 874; Price’s Corn Flakes, 994; E. C. Corn Flakes, 914; Toasted Cream: of Rye Flakes, 790; Force, 953; Holland Rusk, 645; Toasted Rice Biscuits, 750; Kel: logg’s Bran Biscuit, 820. ‘In the bran foods,” says the bul- letin, “the laxative action should be taken into consideration in making comparisons in food values.” The analyses of cereals given in the bulletin are signed, by R. O. Baird. - Some time ago in a food bulletin Dr. Ladd made the statement that wheat at a maximum price of $1.80 per bushel is being retailed as a cer- eal food in package form to tie pub- lic at the rate of not less than $27 per buchel. In reply to this state- ment by the food commissioner, who was calling attention to things the public should inform tkems:lves up- an in regard to the high cost of liv- ing, an undated and unsigned cir- cular letter has been sent out, at- e e i L TR AR B THE NONPARTISAN LEADER ELEVEN LearnThe Auto and 2 Make your time worth money. You can Young Man! L!Sten! do it now. 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It seemed perfectly reasonable to call attention to such facts as I did when considering the high cost of living; when so many are paying fancy prices for products put up in fancy containers often short in weight or measure. Must Know Facts " “If we want to reduce the cost of living we mu.t know wkhkat we are payirg for articles of food; we must know what they cost and in what form they can be procured most eco- nomically. It is for this purpose that . analyses and nutrition studies Fully Equippecfll' LEADER READERS! The MAXWELL CA is the car for SERVICE - COMFORT DURABILITY Fully Guaranteed Hug 1es Auto Co. 621 N P Avenue ; 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 a3 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: “Does 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 b2 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 the following: The Californian gets up at the alarm of a Connecticut clock, buttons his Chicago suspenders to De- troit overalls, washes his face in a Pennsylvania pan, sits down to a Grand Rapids table, eats Kansas meat with Kansas peas cooked with Indiana lard on a St. Louis stove, puts a New York bridle on a Colo- rado broncho, fed with South Da- kota corn, plows a five acre farm covered by an OLkio mortgage, with a Chatanooga plow. When bed, time comes he reads a chapter from a bible printed in Boston, says a pray- er written in Jerusalem, crawls under a blanket made in New Jersey, only to be kept awake by sand-flies, the only home products on the place. Every member make a member. This idea has won ‘more than one fight and it can win ours. Farmmg wouldn’t . be. half bad if E-Y farm r only had half a chance. Sy . A