Valdez daily prospector., 1914-01-08
BOILING PO|NT; CRACKED UP ID BE
Woman Offers High Price Solution - Remarkable
 Discovery Reported.

EIcSSlOllitl luuulEy HUG luc uueLuOuS UT the "cold storage trust" was present | at the hearing and said the testimony | of the woman expert of the depart 1 ment of agriculture showed the neces- sity of the enactment of his bill to l regulate cold storage.
 Result of Cold Storage Inquiry. After several weeks of investigation
 over the United States, officials of the department of justice have reached 1 the conclusion that there is little ground for belief that nation wide 1 cold storage trust exists Every Unit ed States attorney in the country was pressed into service for quick survey of the cold storage field, and l cated that, while combinations have been formed i'll few of the large cit ies, there is no reason to believe that there is a cold storage trust controlling the price of eggs and other products
 in all parts of the country.
 Sufficient evidence has been forth coming, however, to show that in some of the cities such combinations do ex-
 ist. and the department already has turned it's attention to a more careful scrutiny of the operations of cold stOr- age men there.
 Lescarde Preservation Method.
 The new process of preserving eggs,
 which is said to be better than cold storage, Is announced by NJ. Lescarde, Frcnchman. The process has reach ed the manufacturing stage. and plants are starting operations ono in France and one in Belgium. As every one knows, the ordinary methods of cold storage for eggs are far from perfect, partly perhaps because cer- tain microbes withstand freezing tenn peruture without serious hurt More over, eggs ns ordinarily handled are affected by the surrounding air through the effects of evaporation. For these reasons prolonged cold storage mark edly impairs the value of eggs. It is found that by the Lescarde
 process eggs may be kept as long as ten months. while the limit for the customary process is about four
 months, says the Scientific American.
 The eggs are set up upon a piece Of cardboard provided with suitable per
 forations. There are 1G0 holes in each 1 slab, which forms the cover of q tin
 lined wooden box containing two in candeScent lamps. so arranged that the light passes through the eggs and
 is viewed by the operator It is thus nd
 it takes but few seconds to examine
 the entire 1GO eggs.
 The next stage consists in packing the eggs in special metal boxes. in l which they are treated with cnrbonic acid gas and nitrogen.
 Eggs Immune From Gas.
 The boxes are then ready to be talk en to the steriiZer. which consists of are stacked upon roller trucks, which are then run upon rails to the tank. The tank is first of all exhausted to extract the gases or air from tle air pocket of the eggs and also the gases | dissolved in the albumen. Then car
 bonic acid gas is sent into the appa- ratus from steel bottles containing compressed or liquefied gas.
 | After admitting certain amount 1 the gas is shut off for time. while it continues to be absorbed by the albu-
 men of the eggs, Fresh gas is then
 let in. when the pressure is seen to fall. and this is kept up until the eggs ab- sOrb no more gas.
 When the proper point in this oper-
 iition is reached the carbonic acid gas i is shut off. and a portion of it Is then again extracted by pumping, to be re- i placed by q certain amount of nitro, gen fed from compressed gas cylin- | ,lers.
 The eggs are now ready to be taken
 {, the cold storage quarters. where they can be kept for long period of time These storage rooms need no special precautions as to the state of
 the air or the amount of dampness. as
 this can have no effect upon the eggs | Accordingly the storage chambers are cooled by Il simple brine circulation
 and the temperature is kept about at
 the freezing point,