Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-03
NO FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE
Draft Of Regulations Will Soon Be
Made.
MAY BE READY IN SEPTEMBER
Act Is Modelled on That Of England
Recent Experiments on Eff
feet Of Cold Storage.

Ihere VIII be no possibility of putting the
pure food law into effect till after Congress-
meets and gives the various departments
interested some money to do 1t with But
the work or drawing up regulations under
winch the law will be enforced will beg n
almost at once. and In all probability these
regulations will be ready by September.
Inc treasury. the Department of Asricul-
ture and the Department OF Commerce and
Labor are all parties to the enforcement of
the law and the secretary of each deDert
ment VIII, as soon as possible, name a rem
resentative who will confer with the other
departmental representatives and draft the
regulations which must have the apnrovaI
OF all three secretaries, and most of which
VIII in all probability be ultimately tested
IN the courts. When Congress meets again
there VIII be an Item inserted In the urgent
ueHGiency bill for carrying on the work
until the end of the year and therea Flor
there Will be regular approp Ration made.
Like the English Law.
The three departments concerned are
"elf satlsned with the bill as It was ulti-
iiateiy passed Somewhat curfously. IL
was almost fdentfcally the same bill that
Was passed by the Senate eighteen years
ago and failed in the House 1t is almost
ana drug law that is now in force In Eng
iano, and some Of the officials Interested
say tnat where there are departures the
Ths atgsc law Is tn. the better of the two
PROBABILITY. be very prominent on the
shelves of the grocery stores, and the
layman might not know from the looks
OF the goods he was buying that there
had been any change at ALI But 1t is said
that the law will result in a much better
quality of food. drink and condiments be-
ing SOLD, and that the people will get what
they pay for and not something else that
looks like 1t.
1t is not expected that there will be
much trouble In enforcing the law Not
manufacturers, 1t Is thought, will try to
evade it, and the rest will come up to
scratch and comply with it's provisions
themselves The first question is to get
the regulations drafted under which the
law Will become operative, and the second
is TO get the money to put tho law into
effect.
Effects of Cold Storage.
While the enforcement of the general law
Is awaiting the march of events the Depart
ment Of Agriculture will be working on the
cold-storage problem. The work on fruit
storage is about finished and 1t has been
found that fruits can be kept in storage for
from four to six months and improve right
along. After they have reached perfection,
however. they deteriorate rapidly. The de-
partment has been able to plot q curve
showing the course of change that fruits
in cold storage undergo. If they are not put
in too ripe they are at their best after
they have been in up to six months
The same work is now being done with
meats. The department has had various
sorts of game in storage for as much as
four months and meats up to twelve years.
1t may be said too, that apparently there
is nothing the matter with the tweIve-year-
old meat, but nobody in the department
wants to risk eating It.
There is a squad of devoted and economi-
cally minded young scientists who are now
testing cold-storage chickens. The de-
partment has had many as 80 brolers
blocks of six at intervals and subjected to
microscopic and gastromic examination.