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January and February will be relatively warm months as during the 
winter of 1911, or bitter cold months as during the winter of 1912. In 1911 
the warm months brought about a very large production of eggs, and conse- 
quently eggs in storage were taken out at a loss to the owners. The possi- 
bility of such conditions obtaining acts as a deterrent to the speculator, 
and all data at hand shows that the manipulation of food prices is not 
materially increased by the practice of cold storage. 
As above suggested, there have been desultory attempts to regulate the 
cold storage industry by legislation. The government of the United States, 
although it has discussed the enactment of such legislation for several 
years, has as yet taken no action. Several States, however, have enacted 
cold storage laws of varying character. The first cold storage law of 
record, in the United States at least, was enacted by the’ State of Indiana 
in 1911, similar legislation following in the States of New York and New 
Jersey in the same year. In 1912 the National Association of Food Officials 
gave to a committee the task of drafting a model cold storage bill. After 
many months of careful work and investigation and after the revision of 
several tentative drafts, the committee recommended as a model bill for 
enactment in the several States a draft which during the legislative ses- 
sions of 1913 was enacted in approximately its original form as a law in 
the states of California, Iowa, Nebraska and North Dakota, and by 
authority conferred upon it adopted by the Louisiana State Board of Health 
as the law for that State. In 1912 the Massachusetts legislature enacted 
a cold storage law, drafted after a most comprehensive investigation of the 
subject by a committee of the legislature appointed for that purpose. The 
latest law at the time of writing is that enacted in the state of Pennsyl- 
vania. The Pennsylvania law differs in several points from the model bill 
and indeed from the early legislation upon the subject, which will be 
referred to in detail later. 
At the present time eleven States regulate the cold storage industry by 
law. The State of Kansas regulates the storing of certain food products, but 
has no general law. The Canadian government, appreciating the necessity 
for developing a cold storage industry, in 1907, passed a cold storage act 
entitled, “An act to encourage the establishment of cold storage warehouses 
for the preservation of food products.” This act, while primarily not 
intended as a regulative measure, but rather drafted for the purpose of 
subsidizing the construction of warehouses, is in effect regulative in that 
