Show research to intensify winter in meat tests freezing is one orthe of the oldest ways i of preserving meat it is also one of the newest the U S department of agriculture points out in old time freezing there was not much that could be done about the process P process it was a winter method depending on continued cold A midwinter mid winter or eagly spring thaw might spoil a meat supply intended to last for additional weeks or months this was true whether the meat was wild game brought in by hunters or was from domestic animals modem freezing is still so to new that thit there is a good deal to be boa learned about it this is the purpose ot oz an expansion of studies of meat freezing and end curing made possible under the research and marketing act A first step will be to survey freezing and curing methods now in dze use samples of meats typical of these methods of preservation will ww be assembled and compared tor for quality and nutritive value next the experimenters will try first to duplicate then improve the methods which the survey and comparison work indicate are art most effective the bureau of animal industry will have equipment that gan ean can improve oh on even the most severe winter weather it will be able to lo freeze meat at degrees below zero if it that proves desirable |