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Show Freezing Experiments Carried on Successfully Dr. H. C. Diehl and D. G. Sor- ber of the Western Regional La-bratory, La-bratory, Albany, California, are in Utah this week conferring with officials of the Agricultural Experiment Ex-periment Station relative to cooperative co-operative research work on the freezing! preservation of fruits and vegetables, according to Dr. R. H. Walker, director of the ex. periment station. The cooperative investigation has been in progress during the past few years. Project leaders from the Agricultural Ag-ricultural Experiment Station are Professor F. M, Coe, Dr. LI. H. Pollard, Professor Almeda Perry Brown and Professor A. J. Mor- ris. Dr. Pollard has been in charge i of testing for freezing purposes , varieties of peas and lima beans ; which have been grown 'at the Davis county farm near Farming-ton Farming-ton and at the Agricultural Experiment Ex-periment station farm in Logan, and fruit investigations have been carried forward by Professor Coe. Meanwhile Professor Brown has been responsible for the quality qual-ity test determinations along with Mr. Sorber of the U. S. De- partment of Agriculture, while Professor Morris has been testing the various frozen products for ice cream flavoring and related uses in the dairy industry. Mr. Sorber, who until recently was associated with the fruit and vegetable Chemistry Laboratory at Los Angeles, has cooperated in directing the work of this investigation, in-vestigation, according to Dr. Walker. Wal-ker. With the establishment of the new Western Regional Labor, atory at Albany for the purpose of developing new industrial uses for farm crop surplus and waste products, all of the food preservation preser-vation investigations have been transferred to this new laboratory, labora-tory, he said. Dr. Diehl is chief of the Division Divi-sion of Commodity Processing which includes all of the freezing freez-ing reservation studies, and as- sociated with him is Mr. Sorber who has charge of the investigations investi-gations in freezing preservation of fruits. While in Utah the investigators plan to confer with the producers produ-cers of both fruit and vegetable vegeta-ble canning crops in the state as well as with representatives of in. dustrial concerns who are interested inter-ested in the cold storage locker business. The two met with Dr. John A. Widtsoe of the L.D5. Church Welfare Committee Monday Mon-day to discuss the introduction of new crops into the state. Tuesday afternoon they will speak at the meeting called by the Extension Service for county agricultural ag-ricultural agents and home demonstration de-monstration agents from Northern Utah, extension specialists in horticulture, vegetable crops, also al-so Experiment Station workers in these fields. A special meeting is to be conducted con-ducted by the Cache Valley Berry Growers association in Logan Lo-gan Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the County Court House, Dr. Walker Stated. On this occasion frozen samples of more than thirty var-I var-I ieties of Utah berries will be test. I ed for quality. Thursday even-I even-I ing a meeting of the cold storage V' operators is scheluled for the Ben Lomond hotel in Ogden. |