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insist on the use of malt, it frequently happens now
that beer contains neither malt or hops. Legislation
insisting on the use of both of these would vastly benefit
British agriculture and improve beer.
Potted Meats consisted of German Sausage and of
Brawn. The former contained about one-third of their
weight of bread; the latter were free from bread.
None of these contained any deleterious or unwholesome
materials, nor could any horseflesh be detected.
Fines for adulteration, ordered to be paid into the
Vestry's account, amounting to £43 : 5s ; this was the
result of 18 prosecutions, so that the average fine was
£2 : 8s. The benefit of the working of the Act is not
however to be measured by the fines inflicted. If the
Adulteration Act were not carried out it would be
almost impossible for the honest trader to live; he
would be so surrounded by those who could undersell
him by means of adulterated articles that he must needs
starve or else take to adulteration in sheer defence.
The result to the buyer would be disastrous. Thanks
to the enforcement, by the Sanitary Committee, of this
Act, the mass of traders in this Parish are able to earn
an honest living, the adulterators are not allowed to increase
and are after all but few in number. Though
this Parish stands well much remains to be done
throughout the country. In to-day's "Times," Sir
James Blyth estimates that twenty millions of money
arc sent out annually from this country for Dairy and