Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-09
FOODS IN STORAGE
Topics Discussed in Report of
American WarehouSemen.
ADVOCACY OF LEGISLATION
Publication Monthly of List Of
Products in Cold Storage.
PAPERS READ IN CONVENTION
PAPERS READ IN CONVENTION

A continuous investigation OF cold stor-
age houses and the inspection of their
contents by government agents was in
dorsed and advocated in the report Of the
| committee cold storage, read by the
chairman, Frank A. Horne. at the session
Of the American Warehousemen's Asso-
citation in the New Willard this morning.
The report was favorably received by the
association. and probably will be adopted
at the afternoon session.
The report advocates monthly pub
LEGATION by the Department Of Agriculture
of list of all food products in cold stor-
age and the setting Of a one-year limit
on the retention of products in storage.
! except in cases of perishable fruits and
like products. where regulation according
to the product is advocated.
National Legislation Suggested.
The report also advocates national leg.
islation along these lines. requesting that
provisions Of this nature be embodied in
a bill for the: regulation of cold storage
warehouses now being prepared by the
committee on manufactures of the Sen
ate The Hampton Moore bill for the
same purpose, which is now before the
House. is condemned on the ground that
the six-month restriction is unnecessary
and not approved by the Department of
Agriculture, which places an elastic limit
OF nine months to one year on the reten-
ton Of food products in cold storage.
In the course of an address on Their
mostatic Rooms for Chemical and Phys
ical Research DR.. Harvey w. Wiley,
chief chemist Of the Department Of Agri-
culture gave credit to the present ware
house and cold storage methods for a
saving Of 100000 a year to the gov
eminent in collecting import duties on
sugar.
DR.. Wiley explained that recent dis
coveries had made possible a better con-
troll of temperatures In testing the de-
gree of purity of sugar-a standard on
which it is taxed. Previous, he said, 1t
was impossible to keep the temperature
at degree to give fair results in the
polarization tests. AS result the sugar
appeared. from the test, to be of lesser
degree of purity than 1T really was. and
was therefore undertaxed to a total OF
more than 81 100000 year.
Butter Manufacture.
In a paper on the manufacture of but
ter for storage l.. A. Rogers Of the De-
partment of Agriculture blamed the de-
terioration of butter in storage to improp-
er treatment Of cream prior to manufao-
ture. He advocated the enforced pas
teurization Of all cream intended for but
ter, process he said, employed only by
the largest manufacturers at present. He
said the Department Of Agriculture was
trying to educate the farmer in the prop
| err treatment of cream. but the task was
made more difficult because the farmers
found many small merchants who did
not insist on previous proper care OF the
cream.
The comparative rate of decomposition
| in drawn and undrawn poultry was dis
cussed in a paper by DR.. Mary f. Pen
| nington of the Department of Agricul-
| ture. DR.. Pennington said that there was
| less decomposition in the same time in
| undrawn poultry because the incision
made in the subject to draw the entrails
gave access to the bacteria that are re-
| sponsible for the decomposition.