The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-01
COLD STORAGE
IMPROVES MEAT
BUT THERE IS A TIME LIMIT,
SAYS Mr.. WILEY.
Oysters Shipped in Buckets Should be
Made Unlawful in Experts
Opinion.


Warning Against Frozen sivalves
Spoken by Chief Of Chemistry eu-
reau in Interesting Testimony Be
fore National House Committee on
Agriculture.
WASHINGTON. Ian. 2s.-Dr. Har-
yey w. Wiley, Chief of the Chemistry
Bureau of the Department Of Agricul-
ture and Government pure food expert.
gave much interesting testimony con-
corning the deterioration of food
stuffs in cold storage before the House
Committee on Agriculture, whose hear
ings on the agricultural appropriation
bill have just been made public.
Two cold storage warehouses are at
DR.. Wiley's disposal in Washington.
and he gave the results he has attain
ed by experiments with all sorts Of
foodstuffs,
milk begins to deteriorate right
away, and so does cream, said DR..
Wiley. Eggs also begin to deterior-
ate Immediately Fruit is improved
and sometimes continues to improve
for three months. Meat improves up
to about six or eight weeks, but after
three months for meat you cen see
that it has reached the maximum, and
then it begins to go down. / do not
care how hard it is frozen"
When asked for a further explana-
ton of the deterioration of meat fro
zen in cold storage, DR.. Wiley said:
I'VE find that meats do not taste as
well. and they do not smell as veil,
and, every time, the jury can pick
that which has been kept over three
months. Take out quail. We have
quail year old, and we have fresh
quail cooked at the same time. We
cook them just alike, and you can dis
tinguish beween them, first by their
looks and then by smell and taste.
Every time the jury can pick them out
blindfolded."
Believes in Cold Storage.
DR.. Wiley stated that he 10 q
thorough believer in cold storage, and
believes that most foods improve when
properly kept for a short time, but he
said that the object of his experiments
is to tell the public, and particularly
the storage people how they may safe
ly keep articles of food in storage. He
said that he has been unable to deter
mine if drawn or undrawn poultry
keep the better.
DR.. Wiley was asked many ques-
lions about oysters, and said that the
oysters opened and shipped in buck
cts should be prevented from entering
interstate commerce. as they are dead
"An oyster is dead an hour after
it is opended, said DR.. Wiley, and is
not good. 1t loses its flavor"
In response to inquiries from Rep
resentative Haskins as to the advis-
ability of freezing oysters to pre-
serve them for shipment, DR.. Wiley
said:
"Oh, they ought not to be frozen
That ruins them, and as soon as they
thaw they are dangerous"
He then urged that oysters should
be shipped alive and in the shell, and
said that the greatest outrage on the
oyster trade was to pack oysters in
fresh water and swell them, making
them look fat.
Gelatin was denounced by DR.. Wiley,
who said of it:
st is made out of hides, of the
scrapping from hides. These hides
go into the tanners watts. and these
hides that smell to heaven are treated
and trimmed and these trimmings are
used to make gelatin. The Marine
Hospital service found tetanus germs
in gelatin"
DR.. Wiley said that the gelatin fac
tories are the dirtiest in the world.
In reply to question from Repre-
sentative Haugen as to the uses of
this gelatin, DR.. Wiley said:
1T is used for putting inc ice cream
and candies and for making capsules
that you take your medicine in"