Show AS TO COLD STORAGE J t S. S THE TELEGRAM is is' is in receipt of a circular 5 latter letter tel in defense of cold coM storage Such a letter is r not 1 t necessary y b because cause we know of no one who op- op op- op Imposes ses S s cold eold storage It was v s' s telegraphed 1 from th the f east enst the other day that food was va frequently kept 1 f ry years rears ars in cold storage and that people r objected t g. g That hat is the only objection lOn Y we have heard herd urged i v rt The he circular explains that tlC the men who own I f. f cold storage houses as a a rule do 10 lio not own the v 1 oc products in the houses th that t they simply b re- re A i them then anti and I keep the them and charge toll for foi the 1 ti 1 same f which Inch of course is is an e entirely ly legitimate JM business r S One sentence in the letter S gives us lS a s suggestion It says ys The men engaged in ir th the cold storage I I business b siness e ai-e are arc the ones who benefit least by it it They t j k a toll for for their work worl but the they r. r are arc le really ll pub- pub 4 lie ser servants ants like the editors for instance l if t the t comparison arlson son may maJ be pardoned rn and l. l the public it it- s self lf is the he beneficiary S f great That i is all aU right but the thought it suggests is isS is'S f S 'S that that- w we we know knoy a great many thany editors in this region n would th t-l t rould be improved could they be put in cold 2 storage for several years It would not matter I how hov cold One ne expert this this' letter says declares that eggs are are perfectly good after they have been beenS S there months But tJ they ey are arc fresh eggs when they are put in while the editors would not be fresh S eggs eggs 8 Some me of them are too fresh fresh- but not as a n food proposition About fifteen years rears would ouId be he about right i l for them and it it would not not ni matter how cold d dit it it Avas v s S y S The letter is all right An Anyone that would ever over stop to think a ino moment realizes how impossible it t w would uld be to get along without cold storage It is s 8 sS S the thc g greatest factor in iii preserving fruit that luis his hisS S ever ever been heen discovered because without it iJ fruit fruitS S c could euld uld not be brought from California here dH during in ha half f the year without half of it being spoiled and andall ml 5 all n the rest tainted And it is good for all kinds of food We Ve understand that the Southern Pacific Railroad comp company ny has as built at Roseville some great y S cold storage warehouses ses so that fruit brought ir ii war warm from fromi the vineyards and or orchards hard hards is kept kepi there until it is perfectly cool a and d then being shipped in refrigerator cars the result is it reaches it its destination as good as when it started The q e only possible complaint is one for which w we can see no remedy That is I for instance the great meat packers can take advantage of the buy their live stock at half rates then preserve the meat until there is s a demand fox for it As vc we vc explained exp in THE THE TELEGRAM I a few days clays ago a gentleman h here re who knows more abo abot t tho handling of meat than perhaps any other manill man manin in ill this thi- region said this this' proposed boycott on beef and amI mutton was simply playing into the hands of the tho meat packers s because farmers and stock misers raisers raisers rais rais- ers at certain times in the year have to send their animals to market With Witha a boycott over them the packers can say Our market is partially destroyed de tie- ed and your meat is not worth more to as ui isthan than han half pr prix price c And they l have ave to sell Then the animals are slaughtered and the meat is put is-put put in cold storage and when the boycott passes as it is sure to in a few weeks the same meat is S sold told at the old figure We Ve do not see ee how that can be remedied Of course the cold storage houses could be abolished but that hurt the public a great deal more than it would hurt the packers for they simply would not buy at they h lad had d to I f 1 I I Forty years ears ago when a person was desperately desperate desperate- ly ill of a fever the old fashioned physicians would give strict orders that under n no no circumstances circumstances circumstances circum circum- stances must the patients patients' be bo given cold water That barbarism has passed There is a congressional investigation of cold storage going on now in Washington Our belief beliefs is S 'S that the report will be that some abuses have crept in by people carrying food to those houses and amI keeping it there too long but that the cold coM storage storage storage stor stor- age its itself If i is about as necessary as the air I |