Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-04-01
EGGS BY PACKAGE
ISA KANSAS PLAN
State Officials Make Expert.
ments to Preserve and Sell
Frozen Product.

Topeka, Kan, April PLEASE
send me a pound OF frozen eggs" is
the way the housewife will give her
order TO the grocer In the near future,
II the experiments now being carried
on by the Kansas state board OF health
and the state university are success
full The officials are working on al
entirely new method of preserving
eggs. There are in storage at Law
renee some eggs that were laid in
July, 1910, and these when served in
any style cannot be detected from
eggs Just laid. Half a dozen men
have been served with three eggs on
the same plate, all cooked the same
way, OF all raw. Only the cook knew
which egg was absolutely fresh less
than "a hours old, which was a cold
storage egg and which was a frozen
egg laid nearly three years ago.
The cold storage egg was picked
out instantly, but not one was able
TO distinguish the frozen egg, sc
months old, from the egg laid within
"a hours.
What We started out to do was TO
Fee if We could not devise some plan
whereby the millions of Kansas eggs
lost every summer could not be saved
Tor the winter markets, said DR.. s.
}. Crumbine, secretary Of the state
board Of health. The cold storage
egg is not a complete success. 1t has
10 be used with some other food to
remove the cold storage favor and
often this does not suffice. Every
one approaches the cold Storage egg
with trepidation.
: DIR. Billings and myself worked out
TINS frozen egg proposition. We bought
eggs in July, 1910. the worst egg month
OF the year because OF the heat We
went direct to the farms and got
eggs We knew were not more than a
hours old. We took them TO the uni
versity, broke the shells and put the
eggs, whites and yolks, into 30-gallor
cans.
The cans were sealed when full
and al once put into a refrigerator
plant and frozen as quickly as posi-
bic. For over 80 months those eggs
have been kept at a zero temperature
constantly. We have taken out a few
o. the eggs at different periods fol
testing and today those eggs taste
just as sweet and fresh and are JUS
as wholesome and contain as much
food strength as the day they were
put into the cans and frozen
The cold storage process retardt
bacterial growth. 1t is the growth o
the baC -eria that spCils the eggs
Freezing the eggs absolutely stops thu
growth of bacteria and keeps the egi
in its exact natural state until the
temperature is raised. Frozen egg
deteriorate very rapidly when the TEN
perature is raised.
We are just now starting an ex
haustive series Of experiments will
these frozen eggs.
We have arranged squad OF uni
vcrsity students to eat our frozeI
eggs for the remainder of the schoo
year TO determine by actual human
consumption the possibilities of thi
process Of keeping eggs. At the en-
Of the school year we shall be abl
to tell the exact commercial value o
our plan.
The big ice cream factories ar
allie to keep ice cream in eXcellen
condition for many hours. Grocers an
butchers have big ice boxes or refrig
Grating plants. To put the plan int
actual commercial life will not caus
very large expenditure of money
The big cold storage houses would r.
ceIve the eggs and break them, pu
ting dozen or a pound Of eggs int
separate oiled paper sacks and thu
Placing these sacks instantly int
large cans, sealing the cans and pu
ting them into the freezing room
When the eggs are frozen they woul
be placed in the cold storage room
where the temperature is about zero
The eggs would be distributed JUS
as ice cream is distributed at the pre-
! ent time. The grocers would have t
= buy cans and buckets like those use
= for ice cream. The cold storage house
would take to the grocer each day
large can Of the frozen eggs. AS 81
P grocer received orders for frozen egg
from his customers he would take tn
small packages out OF the large can
put them into his own, pack each ca
carefully with ice and send them OF
: on his delivery wagons. We hav
3 made these tests and We know thu
I. eggs may be kept at least two day
|, in these small cans packed with ic