Show I 0 COOLING PLANT FOR FRUITS IS ERECTED Prepared red by the tho United States Department or of Agriculture A cooling pro plant for fruIts and vegetables designed by experts of the UnIted States Department of ture that does not requIre the use ot of expensIve refrIgeratIng machinery has hns been buIlt b by the grape growers at Dinuba Cal It Is Intended to meet the needs of localities where the shipping shipping ship ship- ping period extends over only n a few weeks and where mechanical refrIgeratIon refrigeration would not find other profitable uses In this plant air Is forced through hoppers containing a mixture of Ice and snIt salt Into rooms holdIng the fruIt or vegetables It has hns been possible possible pos pos- sible to reduce the temperature ot of the coolIng rooms to 12 to 1 15 degrees degrees de- de grees below freezIng As the work done depends upon melting ice the cost of the Ice ut at the plant Is the important Im- Im factor In the cost of pre pre- cooling by thIs process While In the Insulated rooms the fruIt and vegetables are brought down downto to the temperature at whIch they are areto areto to be maIntained In the car on time the wa way to market The cars are arc cooled wIth Ice and this cooling pro takes much of the load of temperature reductIon reduction re- re of oft the Ice In the cur and leaves It for use In maintaining the thelow low Jow temperature The department Is getting Cost ost figures figures fig fig- ures on thIs method of coolIng ShIpments Shipments ShIp ShIp- ments from Dinuba are arc being followed to New Kew York and the behavIor of and prIces receIved for the fruIt and vegetables handled In this way will be compared wIth those receIved for products prod prod- handled bandied In other ways |