Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1913 — Sausage Puzzles Five Legal Stars; What Is It? [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Sausage Puzzles Five Legal Stars; What Is It?

SJT. LOUIS, MO.—Five brilliant stars from Missouri's legal firmament devoted the entire afternoon the other day in an attempt to solve the seemingly ridiculous riddle, “What is a sausage—and if so, why?” Widely varying opinions of what constituted a legal sausage were advanced by Judge Franklin Ferris of the Missouri Supreme court; Joseph H. Zumbalen and Mat G. Reynolds, attorneys, and Homer Hall, assistant United States district attorney, before Judge D. P. Dyer in the United States District court. They appeared in court to argue the case of an application of a packing company for an order enjoining the

enforcement of an order by the secretary of agriculture prohibiting the use of cereal in sausage in excess of 2 per cent, and water in excess of 3 per cent. “Sausage, so called, now contains from 5 to 10 per cent, of cereal,” said Mr. Hall, “and from 10 to 40 per cent, water. “It is sold to the ultimate consumer as sausage, which, we are told by all lexicographers, is a compound of meat spices and salt. “How many consumers know that a great portion of the sausage they buy comes into the packing plants through the water mains?” asked Mr. Halt “I’ll admit I never knew there was anything but sausage in sausage,” Judge Dyer said. “I have tasted sage in it and I don’t like sage,” he added as an afterthought. Judge Reynolds, one of the three counsel for the packers, informed the court that the practices now in vogue in the manufacture of sausage have been employed for forty or fifty years. Judge Dyer then took the case under advisement.