Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1909 — FLOUR PACKAGES ARE SHORT [ARTICLE]

FLOUR PACKAGES ARE SHORT

Food Inspector Reports That Indiana Housewives Are Being Cheated. Indianapolis, Oct. 12.—A. W. Bruner, an inspector in the department of food and drugs of the state board of health, has reported to H. E. Barnard, chief of the department, that In examining packages of flour he has found almost universal ground for complaint against the millers for furnishing the dealers short weight packages. Out of packages examined from 100 mills, all except two were found short in weight from a few ounces to two pounds. A large per cent of the flour sold in the state is sold in one-eighth barrel bags, which should weight twenty-four and one-half pounds. A very large pe r cent of these bags fall as low as twen-ty-two pounds. The millers, in explaining the short weight, declare that the shortage comes from the -drying process to which the flour is subjected in the regular channels of trade.