Deseret Evening News | 1910-01-18 | Page 7 | Freezing a Germ Doesn't Kill Its Activity

FREEZING A GERM KILL ITS ACTIVITY Lawrance Ka Has Jan freer Ing a 0 germ does docs not destroy Its activity but on the contrary that bacteria In creasO In number In stored Ice cream crania wait the assertion ot of ProC Prot F H Bil ot of the UIO department ot of bacteriology of tho University ot of Kansas hero here last night Cold Is unquestionably unfavorable to germ life liCe said Mid Prof Billings but I experiment has 1105 shown that tho they are the tho most moat resistant to extremes ot of toni tem of all known organisms A sample of oC fresh tresh Ice cream tested six sixteen teen million germs to the cubic centi centimeter centimeter meter After ACter three days day storage In Ina ina a frozen state time tho number hind had cd ad to to the tho cubic centimeter The germ of tuberculosis has hall lived lIed In tue tho laboratory laborato for 42 daIs 8 In a tem temperature ot of 34 degrees below freezing Other germs have boo stood equally severe test tOlita without injury 0