Evening star., 1911-05-26
NEW IDEA IN EGGS
Storage Product Better Than
Fresh in the Summer.
so DECLARES AN EXPERT
DR.. Pennington Has Studied Subject
for Government.
POULTRY KEEPS WHOLESOME
Not Harmed by Being in Storage a
Year, If Placed There In
Proper Condition.
so DECLARES AN EXPERT
POULTRY KEEPS WHOLESOME

cold storage eggs will become
special feature on the menus of leading
restaurants in New York and other large
cities in summer and the price will be
larger than for just fresh eggs" IL sug-
gestions made to the Senate committee
on manufactures by food expert are fol-
lowed
DR.. Mary e. Pennington, chief OF the
food research bureau of the Department
Of Agriculture, told the committee yester-
day that during the hot weather in the
summer those who buy eggs in New York
or any other large city will find eggs laid
in the cool days of spring and properly
put away in storage to be better than the
eggs freshly laid in the hot weather and
rushed to the city from the nest.
DR.. Pennington also stabbed a few
other conceptions Of the common people
chiefly regarding chickens For the past
FIVE years, she has been making study
of the cold storage of chickens-their
condition as food from the time the bird
is killed until 1t is delivered to the house
wife after being In storage for sixteen
months.
Should Dry-Pick Chickens.
She said 1T is bad fashion that has
led the public to prefer chickens that are
picked after being dipped in scalding
water to chickens that are dry-picked.
She showed pictures indicating that the
chickens that have been dipped in the
scalding water have dried up while they
were being kept for market.
II was a profound misconception," she
agreed, that drawn chickens were better
for storage than undrawn. And again.
she produced pictures to illustrate her
point.
The hearing before the Senate manu-
factures committee or the bill to limit
the cold storage of food was granted to
the joint committee representing cold
storage warehouses and affiliated indus
tries. and former Representative Charles
4. Lttiefield appeared as the special
counsel. Dr. Pennington was asked to
appear before the committee by the cold
storage representatives.
The chief of Uncle Sans bureau of
food research declared that the results Of
the experiments she has made have pro-
duced no facts to indicate that the period
of cold storage of chickens or eggs should
be limited to less than twelve months
provided. she added, the foods are put
into storage in good condition There Is
q greater change in chickens If they are
exposed to a temperature of 60 degrees
or over in one day than If they are
hard-frozen for twelve months 1t has
not been demonstrated, 1t was testified,
that even at the end of sixteen months
hard-frozen chickens are less wholesome
than when put into storage, but they are
decidedly less palatable.
Important Storage Facts.
Low temperature. Dr. Pennington said,
10 not able to check deterioration that is
we'll started before the chicken Is hard
frozen. And that led to the conclusion
expressed by the witness that II Is more
important that the chicken shall be placed
In cold storage in good condition than
that the period of storage shall be limited.
DR.. Pennington showed a picture of
chicken that had been killed and frozen
in Kansas. shipped to Buffalo-an eight
day journey-in a refrigerator car, held
hard-frozen in Buffalo for three months,
shipped to New York in refrigerator
car, and held hard-frozen there for a
The chicken had been packed in a small
box when frozen, and was sold, still
frozen. in the same box. And the food ex-
the difference between that bird and one
freshly killed and delivered to the market
Other witnesses heard this morning
were George T.. Haskell president of the
Beatrice Creamery Company of Lincoln.
Neb.. who talked of the cold storage OF
butter, and DR.. l. A. Rogers of the bu-
reau OF animal industry of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, who talked of scien-
tine results of Investigations of the ef-