Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1884 — Adulterants. [ARTICLE]

Adulterants.

Glucose or corn-syrup has proved itself a great find for adulterators of foods, etc. It has found its way into beer, served as a substitute for bottled honev and maple syrup, and is largely used as an adulterant in sugars and syrups. The Boston Popular Science Aeics says anew field for its use has been found by the adulterators of milk, who are evidently delighted to find that glucose enables them to add water to milk without decreasing its specific gravity—thus escaping detection by the Jactometer test, which is the usaafStiff most ready test employed by inspectors —Dr. Foote’s Health Mon thly. Of the 162 members of the Illinois Constitutional convention of 1817, or, in other words, of the convention which framed the constitution of 1818, there are only thirty-six still living, not counting the three members of whom no traces can be found. The association of surveyors, formed the other day, will soon be without a survivor.