Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-02-12
Mistellaneous Reaaina.
DEATH IN COLD STORAGE.
Chief Chemist of Agricultural Bureau
Gives Interesting Facts.

Gives Interesting Facts.
DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, chief Of the
chemistry bureau Of the department
of agriculture and government foot
expert. gave much interesting testi-
mony concerning the deterioration Of
foodstuffs in cold storage before the
house committee on agriculture. whose
hearings on the agricultural appro-
! priation bill have just been made pub.
lie.
Two cold storage warehouses are al
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 ur
to about seven or eight weeks. But
after three months for meat you car
see that It has reached the maximum
and then 1t begins to go down. / dc
not care how hard it Is !rozen."
When asked for q further explana-
tion OF the deterioration Of meat fro
zen in cold storage. DR.. Wiley said:
I'VE find that meats do not taste as
we'll, and they do not smell as well
and every time the jury can pick that
which has. been kept over three
months. Take our 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
tinguished between them first by theil
looks an dthen by smell and taste
Every time the jury can pick them
out blindfolded."
DIR. Wiley stated that he Is a thor
ough believer in cold storage, and be-
lieves that most foods improve when
properly kept for a short time, but
he said that the object Of his expert
ments is to tell the public, and partic-
ularly the cold storage people, how
long they may safely keep articles OF
food in storage He said that as yet
he has been unable to determine
whether drawn or undrawn poultry
kept the better.
DIR. Wiley was asked many ques-
tions about oysters. and said that the
oysters opened and shipped in buckets
should be prevented from entering in
terstate commerce, as they are dead.
IAN oyster Is dead an hour before
1t Is opened" said DR.. Wiley, land
is not good. It loses it's flavor"
In response to inquiries from Rep
resentative Haskins as to the advis-
ability Of freezing oysters to preserve
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 OF the
oyster trade Is to soak oysters with
fresh water and swell them up, max
ing them look fat DR.. Wiley said the
oysters sent out in tin cans are al
right, but in further denunciation OF
bulk oysters shipped in tubs and buck
cts. he said:
"They are either preserved with
some preventative or are dangerously
near the ptomaine line. one Of the
two
Gelatin was denounced by DR.. WI
ley. who said Of It:
1T is made out of hides, Of the
scrapings from hides. These hides
go into the tanners vats and these
hides that smell to heaven are treat
ed and trimmed and these trimmings
are used to make gelatine. The ma
rine hospital service found tetanus
germs in gelatine.
Dr. Wiley said that the gelatine fac
tories are the dirtiest In the world.
In reply to a question from Repre-
sentative Haughen, as to the uses OF
gelatine, DR.. Wiley said:
1T Is used for putting into ice cream
and candies and for making capsules
that you put your medicine in"