No. 5. 



DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



55 



A question of interest is, "What have been the effects of the Cold 

 Storage Act upon the cold storage business in Pennsylvania?" The 

 Bureau is in possession of no exact knowledge concerning the 

 amounts of the several classes of cold storage foods held in storage 

 previous to the passage of the Act of 1913. It is not known how far 

 changes may have been made in the storage business in anticipation 

 of the enforcement of the laAv, which was under discussion for some 

 niontlis prior to its enactment in May, 1913, though not going into 

 effect until August of that year. The figures obtained from the 

 quarterly reports of the cold storage warehouses have been com- 

 piled for the dates given in the following table. The pressure of work 

 upon the ofSce force during the past fall made it impracticable to 

 summarize the figures obtained from the reports of October 1, 1914. 

 The lack of parallel statements for the same seasons of the two cal- 

 endar years, makes it impossible to make an exact comparison. The 

 figures shown in the table do not point at all clearly to any pro- 

 nounced change in the volume of foods placed in cold storage sine? 

 this law went into force. 



It ha:s been clear that, in the present lack of entirely certain 

 means of distinguishing cold storage foods from those which have 

 been 'held without refrigeration for a period of 80 days or more, 

 the keeping track of goods that have been stored in Pennsylvania 

 cold storage warehou.ses is not sufficient fully to protect the public 

 from the sale of cold storage goods as fresh. It is doubtful whether 

 the situation can be made entirely satisfactory so long as surround- 

 ing states lack cold storage legislation and effective governmental 

 control against the abuses which these laws are devised to stop. 



The volume of cold storage business conducted by the cold stor- 

 age warehouses of the State is indicated in a general way by the 

 following statement of the several cold storage foods held at periodic 

 dates through that year. 



QUANTITIES OF FOODS IN PENNSYLVANIA COLD STORAGE WARE- 

 HOUSES 



Foods. 



£? 



a 



a) 



a 



a 

 P 



01 



o 



o. 



a 



3 

 Is 



S3 



8 

 a 



<v 



Q 



Meats: 



Whole carcasses: 



Beef 



Veal, 



Lamb and mutton, 



Hogs 



Parts of carcasses, classified: 



Beef 



Veal. 



Lamb and mutton, 



Hogs, 



Parts of carcasses, not classified, 



Game, pounds, 



Game, packages 



Fish, pounds 



Fish, packages 



Domestic pioultry, pounds 



Domestic poultry, packages, 



Eggs: 



In Rliell 



Broken, in bulk, 



Broken, in packages 



Butter, in pounds, 



Butter, in packages 



Lbs. 

 Lbs. 

 Lbs. 

 Lbs. 



Lbs. 

 Lbs. 

 Lbs. 

 Lbs. 



Lbs. 

 Lbs. 

 No. 

 Lbs. 

 No. 

 Lbs. 

 No. 



Doz. 

 Lbs. 



No. 

 Lbs. 



No. 



33,325 



11,222 



142,596 



1,275 



376,136 

 n.343 

 30,285 



575,317 

 45,655 

 17,477 



3,341,487 

 "7^3! 772 



10,664,561 

 239,821 



32,256 



18,262 



40.793 



4,936 



501,607 



16,759.5 



106,830 



1,358,000 



186,225 



2,098 



'hm.'iii ' 

 "s.^z.m" 



111,568 

 74,638.5 



962,' 645" 



17,591 

 *2,948 

 28,021 

 t2,674 



469,131 



20,160 



64,215 



1,052, (Ml 



t30,709 



1,369 



72 



1,591,843 



5,983 



2,064,435 



736 



14,638,816 



465,889 



5,983 



5,070,923 



1,751 





382,860 



50,080 



474,175 



127.549 



859.904 



34.320 



93,028 



1,020,4K 



" "i4!446 



'4] 406,' 218 



3,106.969 

 504,406 



3,2i2,'s60 



♦Besides 1,751* packages. fBesides 27 packages. JBesides 188 packages. 



