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Otago Witness, Issue 3014, 20 December 1911, Page 39

' The Lancet, in an account of a Pure Food Exhibition at New York gives particulars of how foods are adulterated. "In an exhibit of adulterated tinned foods a demonstrator showed a doll, the clothing of which was dyed solely with the colouring | matter taken from ketchup, tomato, and,I vegetable soup; a steal hatpin wag steeped ! into a tin of petit-s pois, and when withdrawn showed a brilliant plating cf pure copper. Strawberry jam was proved to contain only the cores of apples, grass 6 <?ed, and eosin, and sometimes a little gelatine. The lupin seeds planted in the Rakaia riverbed by ill© late Mr W. Baxter, under the direction of the- Ashburton County ' Council, so as to prevent drifting sand, have been a great success, and the Whole riverbed is at the present time a sea of.