The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-09-13
PARIS READY FER A SIEGE.

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PARIS READY FOR A SIEGE.
Food Already In Storage Sufficient TO Feed
the Population Many Months.
Taking into account the remarkable |
advances that science has made. in the
way. of preserving and COMPRISING food |
SO that 1t can be stored i'll a infinitely
ma space in proportion to it's nutri- |
nient, 1t il not likely that any besieged |
city in the future will undergo the hor- |
rors OF starvation. Paris has learned
she had in 1870 and 1871, when the Ger |
man invaders completely surrounded the
city and prevented any food whatsoever
from going in.
II, Iii fact, an attack should come ut Il |
moments notice., the Parisinns would
with everything In their warehouses neces-
time. The Var deptrt,,4H Il" h ns'e made
the ACCUMULATION of uh enormous stock
OF provisions it's especial hobby. Not
only tt'eat' flour, biscuits. preserved
away in the government magazines,
but also milk, "Fasteurized," and pc
trOleum. wood, chemicals iid cOul.
Even the horses have been kept in mind,
for there are packed away great stocks
OF compressed fodder and grass pre-
served by, the si16 system.
That gill. these supplies can be kept
on hand In the comparatively small
space the War department has for the
storing of provisions Is not s0s remark
able when it is remembered that 10000
rations of preserved vegetables can be
stored Ill Il space measuring forty inches
each way. Milk, the scarcity of which
NVyNo ~ .sNy ~. f -,
the siege of Paris is now well provided
for. DIR: Autefage's method Of Pas
,teurizing' milk, which the government
has adopted, will preserve this impor-
ttant necessity of life for almost any
length Of time, rendering it pure and
sweet after months and even years.
BY tieW chemical methods ice can be
dist}eiised with i'll the storage rooms,
and by the use Of ammonia machines
it can be readily made for household
and garrison use. This is extremely i'm
.portant as regards preserving meat. One
special feature of the policy of the war
department is that it has all of its ar
engagements perfected towards immedi-
ately collecting, in the case of impend-
ing danger, hundreds of thousands of
.carcasses of beef and mutton and hun
dreds of thousands of fowls. In a few
hours, almost, the city could be substan-
tally prOviSiOned for nearly Il year i'll
this regard. Besides this, scores of
thousands of can of preserved meats
arc kept continually On hand.-New
York World.
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