El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-25
By
Frederic
]. HaSkin


cution which he proposes He says
! that if the life germ in the egg be
electrOcuted, 1t VIII Stave or the de-
! teriorating process by many months
Rcf-igerati>g FOr Meets .'r--etGo1ble.
In answer to the public charge that
the keeping of meats and other food
stuffs in cold storage plants for more
than a year tends to make them I'M
fit for human consumption, the re-
frigerating interests are offering an
example of long term refrigeration
cited by the reports Of the Smith
sOnian Institution.
1t is related in one of these reports
that the carcasses of a number OF
prehistoric animals have been dis
covered in Siberia. and that the con-
dition of their flesh was so perfect.
even after the lapse of many thous-
andS of years. that it was eaten by
wolves and dogs, and in some cases
by the natives themselves One OF
these animals was taken 70 ST. Peters
burg and now graces the National
Museum of that city. 1t was found
with fractured hip and fore leg, and
has grass between its teeth and On
its tongue. a great clot of blood on
the chest tells the story or the tragedy
which befeIl it. 1t was browsing on
a glacier when il fell into great
crevass, and the struggles it made in
It's efforts TO escape are reSpOnSlD1e
| for. the cIot of blood.
Prejudice Against Cold StOrages.
Cold storage men assert that much
of the prejudice against cold storage
is created by grOcerymen. They de-
clare that these dealers, when they
have an inferior product, will, as
! rule, state that it comes from cold
storage. whereas the fact is that usu-
ally the inferior product is not from
! ala Of
goods which are sold as strictly
fresh" are, as a matter of fact, from
the refrigeration plant.
They hold that only the best ma
terial goes into cold storage, and that
when it comes out it is equal to the
greater proportion of the stuff that
never sees a cold storage warehouse
They admit that eggs. butter and
meat might well have q time limit of
u months, but that such a limit ought
DOt apply 20 such products as dried
fruits. beans. peas. etc.
1t has been found that cider placed
in cold storage will keep sweet for
from IS to 81 days, and that under
such treatment it viii not become
hard" for at least 100 days. Even
after such a period It is entirely pal
atable. The same is also true Of many
other fruit juices. and millions of bar
rels Of fruit that might otherwise be
wasted can now be utilized in the
making OF fruit juices. =.
Cool Air for HOspiteI-
Several medical writers have suggest
cd that the sick wards of the hos
pitfalls of the country ought TO be
cooled by artificial refrigeration. It
is pointed out that temperature ex-
ceeding so degrees is fatal in thous-
ands OF cases, and that the sick wards
might just as Well be artifically cooled
as the death room. There are some
who believe that before many years
artificial refrigeration will have reach
ed such degree of perfection and
the mechanical production of cold will
be made such a cheap operation, that
the private homes Of even the moderate
~ well-to-dO may be artificially cooled
during the heated period.
Large Ice Consumption.
Careful estimates place the annual
consumption of ice in the United
States at approximately 100000 tons.
Of which 22,OOO.OO0 tons is natural ice.
The whole value of the entire prod
uct is placed ct s6O00O,OOO. For many
years it was the claim of the medical
fraternity that natural ice was vastly
more dangerous than the artificial
product
At one of the International Ice Cong
reSses, it was declared that as a gem
efSI rule natural ice Is filled with
germs which make IL dangerous to be
used in drinking water. Last year
this matter was reconsidered. and an
attitude more favorable to the natural
product was taken. 1t has been de-
clered by no less an authority than
DR.. Winslow Hull of Boston, that the
mere act of freezing drives out of the
water so frozen more than 90 percent /
of the germs il contains and that
in two weeks nearly all those remain !
ing in the ice die. so that when the !
natural ice is two weeks Old the water /
which compOses 1t is as free from
germs as the average filtered water I
used in the principal cities OF 7, the (
country When three weeks old, ! the I
ice is as healthy as the best water /
supply.
Ice Saves Fruit Crops.
A farmer at Waukesha, Wisconsin, ,
during warm spell in the early spring. /
hit upon method of preventing his |
tress from blossoming early enough to 1
be caught by late frosts. He piled
ice around their trunks and in this
way retarded their natural inclination I
to bud before the time of danger was I
passed 1t is not improbable that this /
new method Of saving the fruit crop
will be used in many places in con- |
junction with the use of fire in the
orchards on frosty nights.
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