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Show , .Eggs in Cold Storage Give , i All-Year Supply Eggs are most plentiful in spring and early summer. But the con- ' sumer wants them the year, around. Cold storage is the ans-j wer. New ways to treat eggs for storage, such as the vacuuM-car- bon dioxide oil treatment developed develop-ed by the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture, together with , improved" storage equipment, has improved the quality of stored eggs. It is estimated that 10 percent per-cent of the total egg production fcj in recent years has gone into cold storage, or the equivalent of 10 to 13 million cases of eggs. There s are more than 730 million cubic i feet of cold storage in warehouses and meat packing plants, says Thomas W. Heitz, of the Bureau . of Agricultural Economics in a recent re-cent bulletin. Eggs are second only to apples in the amount of space 11ed. Poultry ranks fourth. |