BOGUS FOOD PRODUCTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3612, 19 December 1905, Page 4

BOGUS FOOD PRODUCTS.

Thor Can Live Only So Lon* tut That* Usui Character I« Hidden by. Lying: Label*.

After all, something i» to be hoped for from national and state laws. While it is true that many laws on our statute books are dead as to enforcement, or only partially enforced, yet it is also true that some of the laws that we supposed would be of little effect have been enforced to the letter and have accomplished all that could be desired. We will instance the national law against “filled cheese.” It was not many years ago that one could hardly buy a piece of cheese and be sure it was what it claimed to be. Filled cheese has demoralized the home market and destroyed most of the foreign demand for cheese made in the United States. The filled cheese law was passed, and the result has been the almost complete obliteration, of the industry of making filled cheese. It can still be made and sold, but it cannot be sold for anything besides what it is. What is the result? It is found that no American wants to buy the stuff, and so none is sold in this country. Two factories in Illinois still make filled cheese and sell it to English firm*. But even there the demand is growing lew. English merchants last 3"ear imported 636,944 pounds, made in the United States and Holland. It is made in no other country. The amount used in England last year was not half of the amount used two year* before. Recently there have been some prosecutions in the English court on account of tradesmen having sold filled cheese for the pure article. It is probably true that all of this cheese now leaving the United States is going out fully branded under its own name, but it is altogether probable that the consumer on the other side of the water buys it for full cream cheese. Its decadence proves that it and all things like it can live only so long as their real character is hidden by a mask. We need therefore only tear off the mask to destroy most of the imitation food products.—Farmers’ Review.

Wh Popular Tear# Agm. The great reputation now being given the cow pea is not new. Many years ago the praises of the cow pea were heard everywhere, and the cow pea is also one of the oldest and best known plants in this country. The fact is that cow pea will not make much headway where clover is a leading crop. It will prove serviceable where clover is not easily grown, but as it is expensive to save the seed of the cow pea, much difficulty is in Its way. It is a valuable plant, however, and should bo grown, on every farm.