Show LETTER fl SELF ibe PUCKER TO paris june 11 1906 dear percy W alle I 1 am not on the ground and cannot size up the present situation with every confidence in my judgment I 1 think it would be wise to clean up the yards and all the houses so as to be ready for any inspectors or reporters who may ask to be shown through the plant I 1 may be wrong but probably it hurt any thing if you were to do a little clean ing up you can get thomas jefferson jackson to do a week s whitewashing he can daub up enough fences in that time to make the cattle and hog pens look fairly clean and possibly he could finish in time to whiten up the interior of some of the rooms of the plant As I 1 think it over I 1 guess it would be a good idea to clean the floors in all the rooms naturally a great deal of grease will fall on the floors in 10 or 12 years and much of it will be ground into the wood and saved i pieces of pork beef mutton and rind and a great deal of lard no doubt cover the floors to a depth of six or seyen inches in places this should be scraped up carefully and turned ovey to the olive oil department where it can be placed in the vats with oxalic acid and formaldehyde it can be bottled as la picha olive oil quality guaranteed by the ital lan government the sediment can be used in the boneless chicken ae apartment part ment put dp a few signs saying the use of tobacco prohibited A violation of this rule means discharge 01 course such a nonsensical rule can t be enforced and you can give the men to understand as much here is another thing you can do send for reporters from every paper in the city and give them a little talk on food purity and similar rot tell what efforts we ve made to kill germs and tell how tor years we have sprayed the walls floors tables wag ons and tools with formaldehyde in order to be certain of absolute clean I 1 liness in proof of the statement show them our formaldehyde bills for the last five or six years that 11 con vince em how Is the egg business coming alonga I 1 met a famous french chem 1st yesterday who showed me a thing or two about eggs and I 1 had always supposed I 1 knew about everything worth knowing I 1 think we can revolutionize lut ionize the egg business this fel low has a secret preparation that pre serves eggs for as long as seven years it s something wonderful best of all this stuff Is cheap costs only eight cents a gallon and a gallon Is enough to preserve nearly a million eggs you need only one drop of the stuff and great care must be observed not to use more than one as two drops cause the stomach to rebel and three cause serious illness and sometimes death however we must all taki chances in this world this french man has invented an instrument with which the egg is punctured the preservative serva tive injected and the hole sealed I 1 have offered him tor his formula and instrument to become my exclusive property and I 1 think he will accept that seems like a large i amount of money and it Is but think how soon it will come back we will save thousands and thousands of dol lars in ice and when he perfects it so it can be used on meat well inside of a few years the phrase cold stor age will be deader than chauncey M depew your affectionate father JOHN |