The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-02-21
WILEY AND COLD STORAGE.

that is especially apropos. Il says:
No intelligent citizen will deny the !
benefit that the entire country the
producers as we'll as the consumers
of perishable food. have derived from
the general introduction of the sys-
| tenn Of cold storage. For the farmer, |
in the warm season, when production
was its maximum, when prices were
unprofitably low in consequence Of the
supply exceeding the normal demand,
and weather conditions were such as
to prevent the preservation of ami
NAL substances, cold storage enabled
such articles of food to be preserved
without deterioration until the de-
mand more nearly kept pace with the
supply. But IL did not take long for
the dealers to discover the possibilities
of the process for the creation of arti-
ficial famines and for holding back the
| food of the people until prices ad-
vanced to a famine scale. The period
during which meats. eggs and similar
articles of food could be retained in an
artificially frozen condition without
detriment to the health of the consumer
was wholly ignored, and all that was
sought was to retain all the stores
| that could be accumulated until an
artificial scarcity was created which
might enable them to collect from the
needs of the people all the profit they
| desired.
The investigation that is now being
conducted at Washington into the OPP
Grafton and methods of the cold stor-
age system has naturally aroused the
keen interest OF those who are en-
gagged in this branch of industrial or
rather mercantile development, and
the American warehousemen's associa-
ton, following q practice that has be-
come bewilderingIy common OF late,
is now engaged in sending broadcast,
excerpts from the testimony taken
lat that investigation to per-
suade the people that there is nothing
wrong either in the system or in its
manner of operation. AS might be
expected, the witness upon whom they
chiefly rely is the intelligent and trust
worthy head of the bureau of chemistry
in the department of agriculture, DR..
Harvey w. Wiley. Nobody can afford
TO doubt that DIR. Wiley is the right
man In the right place; 1t seems in
credible that he could have held on
. to his job so long If he were otherwise
even as a similar tenacity in office
holding is the basis of the public con-
fidence in the meteorological capacity
of Willis Luther Moore, the head of the
: weather bureau. 1t is on this account
that the confidence of DR.. Wiley in the
value of the cold storage system, as
at present conducted, is so reassuring
to the public. The doctor confesses
that not all cold storage eggs are
strictly fresh" are really in a fit con-
4 + - -,Va&
of the wicked farmers. We have
been investigating" said DR.. Wiley,
e "the condition Of eggs which go into
. cold storage. and must say that these
investigations, while they have brought
out nothing detrimental to cold sUor-
age, have certainly produced a mass
Of testimony showing that the eggs
$ when they are offered for cold storage,
A.. are not in a At condition TO be stored,
They have been storing bad eggs.
This is not very encouraging to the egg
n consumer, especially in this Lenten
!. season. We cannot all take the same
:, precautions as DIR. Wiley, who while
: he testified that he paid so cents q
dozen for frankly labeled cold storage
i eggs, and 40 cents a dozen for cold
!. storage eggs sold as strictly fresh.
d, paid SO cents a dozen for eggs which
his inspector saw laid" We can't al
Is detsil a government inspector to watch
e the hens and see that the eggs art
i freshly laid. For such a guarantee who
would not be willing to pay SO cents q
doEen2
But the INSCRIPTIONS farmers are
d not the only persons who impose upoE
st and bring unmerited obloduy upon the
cold storage men. DIR. Wiley says thai
one reason why cold storage chickens
sometimes seem disappointing is tina
J. the dealer thaws them and dips then
; in water TO make them SVEN UP ans
look plump. Then, of course, decay
makes a wild sprint for the chicken
that may have defied its approache.
= for a year or more. and the customel
is naturally disappointed
It must be said for the credit o
. DIR. Wiley that he does not believt
that even good eggs should be helt
in cold storage more than nine months
Perhaps III that limit were reduced b,
six months there would be less causl
i for complaint on the part of the con
i suming public
eEA grave yari-at Brooklyn caugh
i on fre.
sv Cold ssoisge abuses should b
q remedied.
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