nd to be pure. Vinegars were also highly adulterated.
Competent officers, who shall be specialists, should be appointed in
each State to examine manufactured and natural foods to detect
adulteration. So far these examinations have been made by college
professors. The State Boards of Health should take the matter in hand
and see that it has the proper attention.

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A French periodical, La Culture, gives the following simple method for
testing the purity of water. In an ordinary quart bottle three parts
filled with water dissolve a spoonful of pure white sugar, cork it well
and put it in a warm place. If at the end of forty-eight hours the water
becomes turbid and milky there can be no doubt of its impurity, but if
it remains limpid it may be considered safely drinkable.

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