Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-06-30
TO COOL PEACHES
BEFORE GAR STARTS.
Fine Demonstration Made
of New Process.

in years has created the intense and
enthusiastic interest throughout this
peach growing section of Georgia as
did the successful demonstration of the
preceding process by the United
States government officials at the
Hale Georgia Orchards, two miles from
this place Monday afternoon. The de-
monstration was made in the presence
of officials from the United States De-
partment of Agriculture, the State Col
lege of Agriculture, the State Depart,
ment of Agriculture, traffic represen-
tatiyes of every railroad operating in
Georgia, officials of the Department Of
Agriculture, officers of the Georgia
Fruit Exchange, prominent growers
and Representatives of the various
state papers.
The demonstration took place in the
afternoon. The Government has To-
Gated at this place its experimental
preceding car plant 1t is in this car
thai the cool air is generated. 1t was
commented upon that in 1904. G.
Harold Powell, then and now attached
to the U. S. Department of Agriculture,
made the first experiments in pre-cool-
ing at this same orchard The com
pany was conducted to tie preceding
apparatus car to which an ordinary
refrigerator car, previously iced and
packed with peaches, picked in the
morning, al this orchard had been
stacked was attached, the door of the
car Wits the peaches in it closed,
ready for shipment and then great re-
frigerator pipes were connected with
the ice bunkers and those pipes lead
to the preceding car The pumps in
the preceding car were started and
cold air was pumped into the loaded
car through TIE ice bunkers in one
pipe while the warm air arising from
the packed peaches was sucked
through the other bunker and pipe, out
of the car and back into the pre-cool-
ing car where it was refrigerated and
again pumped into the car The air
pumped into the car, each time, WIS
down close to freezing. IN this way al!
of the warm air was sucked from the
car and by means Of a crested vacuun
its place was taken with cold air.
Heretofore the great trouble in the
transportation of peaches has been
that the refrigerator ears cool tn
crates of peaches in transit With the
preceding car these peaches are cold
before they leave the orchard and ar
rive at destination in the same cond-
lion. By means of the preceding Pre-
cess it has been demonstrated that ripe
fruit can be packed, preceded and
shipped and will not only arrive at des-
tination in good condition, but viii
remain in better condition after ar
rival.
Following this practical demonstra-
ion of the operation of the process the
company was invited to step into an
empty refrigerator car to which, the
preceding process was applied Dc
spite the fact that it was a hot June
day outside there was soon a boreal
blast blowing through the empty car
that the company was given cold feet
and were glad to get out into the
warm sunshine again.
The railroad traffic officials are
iubliant over the demonstration and
warmly congratulated the government
officials upon the process, the Ex-
change upon getting the demonstra-
ton for Georgia and Mr.. Hale upon
his splendid orchard.
Among the representatives present,
in addition to the government officials
named were Commissioner of Agricul-
ture T. G. Hudson, Manager l. M.
Fleming of the Georgia Fruit Elk,
change, State Entomologist e. L.
Worsham. Prof j. H. Mediation of the
State College of Agriculture. a score
Of railroad officials, prominent FRAT
growers and others.