Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-13
REFRIGERATION
PRAISED AS AID
To PURE FOOD
Woman Expert Gives Her Views
as to the Handling Of Eggs
and Poultry.

OF the $500, 900 900 worth Of eggs
produced in this country each year.
10 per cent is actually lost because
of spoilage. and a much greater sum
probably over 20 per cent-becauso
OF deterioration and a consequent
lowering in price" This IS what Miss
Mary Pennington. director of the food
research laboratory of the United
States Bureau of Chemistry. said 10
the City Club of Philadelphia re-
Gently. in speaking upon the subject
Of refrigeration. The way of the
poultry farmer is hedged about with
difficulty, not the least being the fact
that the hen will not conform 20
market demands in the matter Of lay
ing eggs.
Because of this, there is a yearly
glut, which must he artificially manip-
ulated. The egg and poultry business
together represent something Ike
three-auarters of billion Of dollars
annually, and yet the individual poul-
try farmer seldom confesses TO sue
cess.
THE best poultry" Miss Pennington
continued, now comes from the Mis-
sissippi and Missouri Valleys, whore
the packers remove the animal heat
by hanging the carefully prepared and
dressed poultry in q temperature OF
nearly so degrees Fahrenheit for "a
hours. and then packing and shipping
the birds In small refrigerated boxes
in a refrigerated car, closed at the
packing house and never opened again
until It reaches its consuming CEN
ter"
This Is on the same principle as the
expert dairy. which has found that
the solution of the milk preservation
problem lies in the quickest method
Of getting the milk from the COW to
the Theoretically sealed bottle and
thence to the consumer. This rapid
transit under immaculate conditions
has minimized milk contamination
and simultaneously elevated prices.
The old way of packing poultry YVES
10 dip It in cold water and pack 1t In
direct contact with cracked ice.
Paid for the Water, Too.
by this means the consumer paid
for about 1900 pounds Of water In
each carload of chickens and also lost
about 900 pounds of nourishment from
the chickens flesh, which soaked out
and was thrown down the sewer with
the melting ice" No housewife needs
10 be told what happens 20 the mea:
which is soaked in cold water for
longer or shorter time.
tThe actual money loss" says MISS
Pennington, which is after all poor
vav 10 reckon foodstuff loss, amounts
70 about $3.50 on each carload, car
load being 10000 pounds Of dressed
poultry"
The inconsiderats hen who lays
more eggs than her owner can take
care OF in springtime demands the
check OF scientific management. Eggs
which are Immediately and continu-
ously subjected TO refrigeration VIII
keen fresh for nine months II is said
but deterioration can not be checked
as effectually as II can be prevented
and therefore Cutting the market and
irving 10 prevent waste by future
| ..o-trs, ara not so good as immediate
protection in both milk and poultry
| preservation.
Refrigeration plays double role
Miss Pennington reminds the public
1T assists in getting perishable prod
ucts from the producer TO the con-
sumner in good order. and IT also en-
ables US to hold the seasonable over
production Of a large number OF prod
ucts until the season OF scarcity ar
/ rives."
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