The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-23
winter months when butter brings 2;
and 80 cents a pound.

winter months when butter brings 20
and 80 cents pound.
Another thing which can be learned
is that it is not necessary 10 snip ou'
chean cabbage from here in the sum-
mer and ship back high priced Caii1or-
MIA cabbage in the winter.
And still another thing TO be learned
nv visiting this house is that nearly all
kinds of fruit and vegetable may DE
cheaply kept for a long time after their
natural time Of maturing All that is
required is simply to know how to do it,
and then do it.
a reporter for the Eagle visited the
storage house of this company on the
Missouria Pacific road on Tenth street
Yesterday and what impressed him
more forcibly than anything else was
that there is nothing amusing in going
from a temperature of 80 to p degrees
in one step.
The different degrees of temperature
of the different rooms, however, SEEM
ed TO make them the natural home of
the products stored there.
The storage building is 30x70 feet,
and is three stories high. The cold in
the different rooms comes from $50, 900
pounds of ice stored in the top story.
and a few tanks of pulveriZed ice and
salt at different places in the building.
After a most thorough investigation
the company came TO the conclusion
that ice is better for their purpose than
cold produced by chemicals. for the
reason that better circulation of air
can be kept. The ice however. used was
from the Crystal Ice company, and
was of course made by a chemical pro-
cess.
The reporter went into one large
room and found it stored full of or
angeS, lemons and other fruits. The
thermometer in this room showed a
tempera ture of SO, and Mr.. Allison gave
the reporter large ripe peach that had
been there for four weeks. 1t was
very cold and as fresh and juicy APP
parently as when taken from the tree.
The air in the room seemed pure,
and the lemons and oranges seemed
fresh and natural as though they might
keep for year or more.
The fruit stored in this room belongs
to the wholesale men in this city with
the exception of small lots stored by
two houses in Oklahoma.
Mr.. Allison says these oranges and
lemons are now being withdrawn for
use, and about 10000 lemons are taken
each day which he thinks means 10000
lemonades or lemon pies.
In another room was crates of cab
bage stored nearly TO the high ceiling.
This was the surplus cabbage that has
come TO the market and was put away
Tor use Wnen DeeNeO- Inc tenpeTd luTe
in this room was 40 degrees.
Then there was another room in
which eggs in crates were stored, and
there seemed to be enough to feed all
creation. The temperature in this
room was "a degrees, and Mr.. Allison
said they would keep fresh until next
winter.
Any one going into the butter and
cheese room will wonder who is going
RI oil he hr,tt Stn A
great room is stored from floor nearly
to the ceiling with boxes and firkins
of butter.
This butter is frozen and the temper
allure is kept at about % degrees and
there is no telling how long it would
keep.
Nearly all consumers of butter are
aware Of the fact that butter made in
the summer months and particularly in
May an June when grass is nutritious,
is far superior to winter made butter.
People who want extra choice butter
next winter will probably pay 25 or 30
cents for this same butter. This will
give nice profit to the men who Stor-
ed il, but the people who consume it
will have the pleasure of eating good
butter also.
The men who are running this cold
storage house say that onions could be
kept for any length of time, but that a
separate house would have to be pro-
vided. as the scent from onions would
flavor other fruits and under no con-
sideration could they be kept under the
same roof with butter.
The process used to keep the fruits
butter and eggs in this house could
be used on a larger scale and tomatoes.
potatoes and all vegetables could be
raised in such quantities and stored
that southern Kansas could save
thousands of dollars that is every year
sent to other states.