Show Onions Behave Freakishly Frea shIy In Freezing Temperatures WASHINGTON W Nov 26 By By The Associated Press The The onion is a a temperamental vegetable It wont won't ever freeze like anything else Experiment has shown that onions will cool below the freezing point and still sUII refuse to show the slightest damage And the toe more onions that get together the harder It Is to freeze them Although the freezing point for lor foran an onion is around 30 degrees Fahrenheit a bushel of onions in Ina ina a a. standard slat crate was subjected to o a II temperature of 22 degrees for 24 hours without injury Another bushel spread out on the floor suffered a 30 per cent damage showing sho that onions in a mass serve sene as protectors to one another Still SUII more subtle are arc seen In the current cross-current com corn complexes complexes of an onions onion's disposition but still free of dam dam- damage damage age an onion will wl freeze Instantly It if stirred Jarred or handled how how- however however however ever carefully car fully ully A bushel of selected specimens were spread out Into a 0 single layer In a temperature of 22 degrees After six hours part of them were I tossed Into a a. basket and then again spread on the floor At the end o of 24 hours hours' the temperature was raised and nd two days later Ia r 80 per cent I of those molested showed freezing Injury while the others were In per per- perfect feet shape There Is a third erratic behavior It has been noticed repeatedly that tha when frozen onions were transfer transfer- transferred red to a a. temperature of 31 or 32 degrees the freezing injury was v as greater than when removed remo to a higher temperature One layer Iner of a a. frozen onion oroon may maybe maybe maybe be damaged and the next one re remain re- re remain remain main normal Sometimes the in inJury In- In Injury injury Jury skips a a. layer or two as 1 It penetrates penetrate toward the center Frozen tissues appear dIs- dIs dIscolored dis- dis discolored colored and somewhat transparent with indefinite scattered opaque areas |