The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-07-13

Cannot Execute the purr food Law
>o"-No FUNDS arc Availahlr-tCf
i Modelled ON That Of Englaad-Rs-
cent Experiments IN ETcvr Of Cold
storage

ting the pure food law into en@~- Till
after congress meets and gives he
various departments interested some
money - DO il with, But he wo-k
Of drawing Up The regulations under
which me .aw will be enforced al!
begin almost It on,~. and IL al,
probability these regulations all
ready n September.
The Treasury. the Department o.
Agriculture and the Department y
Commerce and Labor are ali parties
I" he enforcement 90 she Ia~ and the
secretary OF each dspArt neut ALL as
soon as possible. nam. = r~epre@ey; IA
/ tive who wilI confer with the other
departmental - representatives. and drai.
the regulations which must have he
AppToya! OF all thre. secretaries. aad
most OF which will IN all probability
be ultimately tested In the courts
When congress meets again there WiIi
oe N item inserted IN the urgeu, 5e-
nciency bill fu~ carry n On the xo-k
uni. the end Of the year. and there
after there will be = regular approp- n
lion made.
LIKE THE ENGLISH LAW.
The hire" Departments concerned are
Well satisfied with the bill a. ii eas
ultimately passed Somewhat curious
~. i was almost identicIlly the same
bill that was passed by the senate
eighte years ago and failed in he
house. Il is almost word fr NOri
a copy III me English food and drug
law thai i now ia fore" !u England
n some OF the "fi -ials ln.er ste.
say thar where there are Departures
the American law Is The better III the
| TWO.
4 effects OF The .aw viii nut. IL
probability. he very prominent uu h
shelves OF the grocery stores. and ID
!aEman might net know rom he .ogAs
II the goods he was buying hat here
had been am change Al al. But i
Is said that the law will result IN a
much better quality of food. drink ami
continents being sold. and nat n
people will get what they pay for aud
not something else that liik~ like :.
It is not expected that there will
be much trouble in enforcing the law
Not nor than five per cent of ne
dealers and manufacturers, il -
thought will try 10 evade it, n the
rest Will come up 10 scratch and COM
ply with its provisions themselves
The first question Is to get the regu-
lationS drafted under which the LAW
will become operative. and the second
is 10 get the money 10 put the law IN
TO effect.
EFFECTS OF COLD STORAGE
While the enforcement Of the gen
eral law is awaiting the march o.
events the Department If Agriculture
will be working on the cold-storaSe
problem. The work on fruit storage
] is about finished. and ii has been
found that fruits can be kept in stOr-
| age for from four TO six months and
improve right along. After they have
reached perfection, however. they de-
| teriorate rapidly. The department has
been able TO plot a curve showing the
course Of change hat fruits in cold
| storage undergo. II they are not put
in too ripe they are at their best after
they have been in up 10 six months.
The same work is 10Y being done
with meats. The department has Lad
various sorts of game in storage for
as much as four months and meats
up TO twelve years. It may be said.
too. tina apparently there is nothing
the matter with the t~welve-year old
| meat. but nobody in the department
| wants to risk eating il.
There is a squad Of devoted and econ
omic2lly minded young scientists who
are now testing cold-storage chickens.
The department has had as man. "a
$50 brOilerS in cold storage, and these
| are taken out in blocks of six a. in
| tervals and subjected to microscopic
| and gastrOmic examination. The work
has not yet been finished, and il would
be premature TO say anything aJpu'
conclusions, but il il generally under
stood that the experiments will result
i'm putting a term on time II sort
Of food can be kept in cold STORAGE.
LIMIT FOR COLD STORAGE.
Indications point to about a year a
the limit Of time for meats and po-s-
IDLY Il shorter time for fowls ana
game. There are experiments being
| made both with drawn and undrawn
game and chickens, and tie result Tlll,
of course. have a decided effect on he
ultimate market for such material -
is said that from an ethical point of
view II does not seem fair rha- ANY
organization should be able 20 STR
food products for a term Of years and
thus lnfuenc" the markets Il put a
tax on future generations Of farmers
by holding over their heads a reserve
! supply OF low-tempeTature food.
II is thought. too. that the expcr-
iments will prove that about a year
at mo~ is the limit 20 which fC-I
| can be safely stored. and this, from q
moral point of view. would seem 4"
be perfectly legitimate. merely holding
| rhe supply over from one season 20
the next.
Among other things. The Cold-scpT-
age egg il going 10 come in for eK-
! animation. Il Is alleged that there are
| some eggs nov in cold-st0rge IN Wash
ingtcn that have apparently been XIV
en- n life sentence. and there arc ri
mors that some OF the "!ifers nave
already been n for a decade. l. =
said in the interests of humanity tha.
there should be a limit 10 this sort II
thing and that life Sentences for eggs
shorI1 he ~s-raighfvay commute ed. and