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coffee, and must, I suppose, be admitted as a mixture.
The proportion of chicory was far to large for the
price at which the article was sold. The poor should
learn to mix for themselves. An admixture containing
one-sixth of chicory is an improvement upon
coffee, but I would venture again to recommend that
the kind and amount of admixture should be stated
on the lable. I may be allowed to mention that, with
the consent of the Chairman of the Vestry, I have
made analyses of fair samples of coffee, tea, and
butter, with a view to a more perfect state of
knowledge of the present state of the markets.
Several of these analyses I have appended to my
Reports for the present Quarter, and I am quite
prepared to recognise the distinction between adulteration
of tea done abroad and at home.
Of Butters, I have analyzed twelve samples.
There was only one (No. 323), in which a small
amount of lard was found, and the quantity was too
small to regard it as a matter for prosecution. I
have taken it as accidental.
But I would venture to give a caution, both as
to the amounts of water and of salt,