Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-12-17 | Page 35 | Berlin Now Drying Its Vegetables

Berlin Now oW Drying Its Ifs Vegetables e tables New ew T Way ay to Conserve Food Supplies Evolved in Big BigGerman BigGerman German German Plant B BERLIN BERLI ERLIN Dec 16 Berlins Berlin's H Berlins Berlin's establishment establishment lI for drying vegetables which went Into operation In July I I Is already drying some forty tons of or vegetables dall dally and an en enlargement enlargement en- en of oC the plant now budding build build- building In ing will almost almo t double Its capacity It Is operated In connection with one of oC the great gas plants of ot the city where It obtains an abundance of ot cheap fuel using altogether the tho waste from the tho gas retorts an and and coal cars The Tho drying hou house e serves as a safety valve for Cor the Berlin mar mar- ket It often oCten happens hr hare h hf r r. r ns as at atall atall atall all other great hrent centers center of ot population population tion that more moro e vegetables como come upon upen tho the wholesale market at certain certain tain times than the retail trade can absorb Whenever this appears to tobe tobe tobo be bo the case ense the superfluous superCIlious cars cals loa loaded e w with Ith vegetables are switched off and carried earned to the drying establishment es es- establishment It Is chiefly for this reason oi that the latter laller will as ns Is Isnow Isnow isnow now believed be kept up permanently perma perma- as as a regulator of ot the vegetable eg- eg trade even after atter tho the war The vegetables dried are chiefly chleCh cabbages but also spinach carrots turnips kale potatoes and some Bome others are ale Included e When a correspondent correspondent cor cor- respondent ent cf of C the Associated 4 Press Pross visited the tho drying house ho found roun In some Rome seventy nt women occupied trimming cabbage heads washing cutting drying an and bagging them Special machinery docs does much of ot the tho work Tho The washing for example Is done In shallow tanks through tho bottom of which air Is forced In man many jots Jot and under great pressure pressure pres- pres sure this causes ues n a violent boll boiling Ins movement ment which thoroughly cleanses the vegetables within a af afew f few w seconds Before Detoro the cabbages are tiro thrown Into tho the slicing machines machines machines ma ma- chines a girl hol holds s each head hea under another machine that neatly bores out tho the stem The sliced cabbage Is then parboiled for about one ono minute and then goes oes to the dryIng drying dry dry- rIn r- r In Ing kilns These are arc largo Iron furnaces about eight feet teet high tl C they held about ten frames of ot vegetables vos- vos vegetables at once Tho The frames about feet have a bottom of ot wire T netting upon which tho the cabbage mass Is thinly spread The Tho drying process takes two hours The dried product Is then put Into bags and piled away In the storeroom At t present the dried v vegetables aro are used only onh for feeding tho the In Inmates Inmates In- In mates matos of oC tho the various arlous charitable In In- In It Is expected however how hew ever that much of oC tho the product will win willbe willbe be sold In the markets toward tho end of ot the tho winter when tho the general general gen hen eral supply of ot vegetables grows scarcer