The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-10-03

United States geological survey they
can find out as to the altitude Of re-
gions travcrscd by shipping routes.
VI course, the temperatures cncoun.
tered in crossing mountain ranges
are apt to be much lower than in the
valleys.
The use of paper for protection
against cold is increasing very much
and its effectiveness in this way is
wonderful. Fruit wrapped in heavy
brown paper will endure 10 degrees
more cold than without it. Potatoes
arc sometimes packed in barrels lined
| with paper, and when the weather is
unusually severe the barrels are COW
cred with paper also. CLANS and oys-
tcrs are similarly shipped in paper
lined barrels, to keep them from
freezing, and cars for transporting
pcrishable merchandise are quite COM
monty lined with paper. There is
said to be nothing like it to keep out
frost. Eggs, shipped il crates with
separate pastcboard divisions and COW
cred with layer of cat chaff, will en-
durc very low temperature. 1t is
observed, by the way, Chat picked
eggs are injured by cold more quickly
than fresh ones.
Thick or fat clans or oysters do not
freeze as readily as lean ones, and oys-
ters resist cold better than clans.
Shuckcd oysters, kept in their own
liquor in tight barrels, will not spoil
if frozen in transit. When clans or
oysters in the she'll are frozen they
should be thawed gradually in q cool
place. Oysters in the she'll can be
kept two months in dark place, when,
the temperature is little above frccz-
ing. If they are sprinkled from time
to time with ice water. 1t has boon
noticed, by the way, that CLANS and.
oysters in . transit through snow
storm do not freeze RS readily as WHOM
the weather is fair. Fish may be
kept sound and markablc for thirty
days provided they arc cleaned soon
after capture. They are shipped by
express in barrels with iao, or by
freight in casks or boxes on wheels.
Little points Of value have been
ascertained by shippers Of perishablc
produce through long and costly ex-
pcriencc. For example, it is now
known that sweet potatoes and turnips
must not be put together, because the
proper temperature for the former go
degrccs} is too high for the latter and
rots them fast. Potatoes do better in
double-walled cars, heated by stoves
to keep out frost. Thirty-two do
grees will not injure them for eating,
but will prevent them from sprouting
in the spring. On the other hand, all
sorts Of tree seeds, including peach,
plum and walnut, sprout better in tho
spring if frozen in the winter. Bulbs,
such as tulips, lilies aud hyacinths,
are not I'M jured by temperature below
zero.
In sending early vegetables from
the South the utmost care has to be
taken that they shall be we'll venti
lated, 80 as to get rid of the carbonit
acid gas which they cngender, and or
this account opcn-work baskets, slat
ted boxes and barrels with opening,
cut in them are employed. Wher,
fruit is concerned it has been fount
} that precautions to keep out cold ma,
actually cause decay by keeping in tn,
, heat which the fruit generates. Thi
may go SO far as actually to cook tn
, fruit. Not very low, but unife7m
, Temperature is required, Of 40 to 81
II degrees; which will keep fruit twent