Show COLD STORAGE FOR SIL Kz curious facts facto revealed by varying temperatures pera tures raw silk is sold by weight and when stored in ordinary warehouses it dries and naturally decreases in value by storing it in a cold vault tb the e moisture is preserved and the silk keeps its weight there is another curious fact about the cold storage of silk it was dis discovered covered some years ago that silk in winter usually had a finer luster than in summer the cold air was supposed to be accountable a countable for the change and an experiment peri ment was tried in keeping bales 0 of silk in cold rooms for comparison compall son with others on the store counters the cold silk then appeared to be of a much finer quality when in reality it was from the s same am e loom As soon as this fact became generally recognized the large silk dealers went to the cold storage warehouses and had bad their silks placed in freezing vaults in some cases case s the thermometer is kept as low as ten degrees and when the bales are am taken on out t they feel like blocks of I 1 ice ce some firms keep most of bf their stock in storage and only take silk out in quantities equal to the anticipated sales of the day for the luster acquired by freezing soon disappears after exposure on the bargain counter its it is asserted that an inferior grade grad e of silk while extremely cold has the feeling and appearance pe arance of a much higher grade which has not been frozen while on the other hand it has been found that the best grades are not improved by the arctic treatment |