The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-02-08
LIGHT ON COLD STORAGE
Is Shed by Uncle Sans Pure Food Ex-
pert, Dr.. Wiley, Before House
Committee on Agriculture.

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A Washington special says: DR..
Harvey w. Wiley, chief of the chem
istry bureau of the department of ag-
ricultlre and government food expert,
gave much interesting testimony con-
corning the deterioration of foodstuffs
in cold storage before the house COM
mittee on agriculture, whose hearings
OH 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 at
tanned by experiments with all sorts
of foodstuffs.
milk begins to deteriorate right
away and so does cream" said DR..
Wiley. Eggs also begin to deteriorate
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 can see
that it mas reached the maximum and
then it begins to go down, l do not
care how hard it is frozen"
When asked for further eXplana-
ton of the deterioration of meat frozen
in cold storage, Dr.. Wiley said:
1--WE find that meats do not taste
as well, 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
a fresh quail cooked at the same
time. We cooked them just alike, and
you can distinguish between them first
by their looks and then by smell and
taste. Every time the jury can pick
them out blindfOlded."
DR.. Wiley stated that be is a thor
ough believer in cold storage, and
believes that most foods improve when
properly kept for short time, but
he said that the object OF his expert
means is to tel 1.-The public, and partic-
uarly 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.
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.
can oyster is dead an hour before
It is opened" said Dr. Wiley, "and
is not good. It loses it's flavor"
In response to inquiries from rep
resentative Haskins as to the advisa-
biIity 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
all right, but in further denunciation
Of bulk oysters shipped in tubs and
buckets, he said:
"They are either preserved with
some preservative or are dangerously
near the ptomaine line, one Of the
two"
Gelatin was denounced by Dr.. Wi
ley, who said of it:
ut is made Out Of hides, or the
scrapings 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 hos.
pital service found tetanus germs in
gelatin
DR.. Wiley said that the gelatin fac
tories are the dirtiest in the world.
In reply to a question from Repre-.
sentative Haughen, as tc the uses Of
gelatin, DR.. Wiley said:
ut is used for putting into ice
cream and candies and for making
capsules that you put your medicine
in"