Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-09-01
COLD STORAGE
FOOD TEST
Government Experiments as to
the Nutrition in Cold Storage
Food Products.

VVO SVOOStSs
WASHINGTON, Sept. Experts
are to feast on cold storage food. Prof.
Wiley, chief chemist of the department
of agriculture is ready to begin expert
ments as to deterioration. 1t will be
Il feast for a king-at the start. There
will be cold storage chickens. cold stor-
age beef, cold storage vegetables. cold
storage fruit, and all kinds Of staple
articles served a la cold storage.
The guests will be twelve in number,
and the host will be DIR. Harvey w.
Wiley. Congress, two years ago, d.
rected the department to make expert
ments to determine what was good
and what was not good to eat. The
task was assigned to DR.. Wiley.
When it was announced that the ag-
ricultural department was to establish
free lunch" department, volunteers
were many Twelve promising sub
jects were selected. They passed
through the ordeal of embalmed meet,
and no round robins" disturbed the
peace and quiet of the department.
Some of the subjects grew pink and
rosy. while others took on the color of
half-baked fried cake.
This year all artificial elements will
be eliminated. The real article will be
served. 1t will be of the cold storage
| variety, but the quantity will not be
lacking. They will be allowed all the
appetite Graves, and notes will be made
| of their physical condition from time
| to time
| DR.. Wiley is now in correspondence
with persons operating cold storage
plants, with a view of learning all that
| is possible about the business. He
thinks that by so doing the work he
is about to undertake can be brought
to a more successful end.
| 1t has not been decided where the
cold storage plant will be located, but
the chief chemist hopes to find place
in this city. He has had offers from
these cities will be selected, unless the
Neutrality-suspicious. come to the front, and
offer cold storage quarters for the use
of the government experts. andt hus
help along the efforts of the depart
ment to determine the right kind Of
food to eat.
The plan to be followed has not been
determined at this time. as DR.. Wiley
has been busy with the preliminary
work; correspondence to quarters
foods to be tested, the personnel of his
class, and the hundred and one other
things incident to placing his expert
ment on a solid basis. One thing has
been determined, that all members of
the class will be fed on cold storage
foods.
A plan for conducting the expert
ments Is now being outlined and will
be submitted to Secretary Wilson in
few days for his approval 1t takes
the subject up in detail and tells just
how the students will be treated, how
cold the storage food will bea dminis-
tered andt he results hoped to be ac-
complished.
From the present outlook the men
! who are to be the subjects will be, in
a greater part, clerks in the bureau of
chemistry, who have offered themselves
as sacrifices on the alter of patriotism.
They are all enthusiastic. healthy
young men, and are willing to be fed
and suffer" for the sake of humanity.
!. The sacrifice can not be appreciated
by the ordinary being. but to the in
| trepid twelve 1t means untold martyr
} dom. The first meal will be "fit for a
king" but after that, as the plan goes
, the victims will begin to cry, "Hbw
long. 0 Lord, how long"
/ The first meal will be given some
time next month. 1t will consist OF
, everything with which the experiments
! are to be made. Each member Of the
class will be given taste Of the first
| article and then the whole will be put
away In cold storage for q month.
{ Separate packages will be made fol-
each article OF food. so that at the end
OF the second month. a certain guam
tity of each can be extracted without
) disturbing the other portions. This will
be served to the class-and 1t is then
that the trouble will BEGIN.