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the application for subsidy is limited to warehouses which are constructed 
under plans subject to the approval of the Department of Agriculture. 
Gold storage is defined as the holding of food products at or below the 
temperature of 40° F. in warehouses refrigerated for that purpose. A cold 
storage or refrigerating warehouse is held to be an establishment employ- 
ing refrigerating machinery or ice for the purpose of refrigeration in which 
articles of food are stored for thirty days or more at a temperature of 40° 
F. or below. This provision varies somewhat in the several States. The 
State of Nebraska, for instance, requires that goods must be held in storage 
for sixty days before being legally cold-stored, while a bill pending in the 
State of Connecticut holds that eggs must be labeled “Cold Storage” if held 
for more than fifteen days. The time limit imposed by most of the laws is 
the natural limit of twelve months, that is, from one productive season to 
the next. The time limit, however, is not uniform in the several States. The 
State of Pennsylvania fixes a different limit for different articles of food. 
It limits the storage of whole carcasses of beef or parts thereof to four 
mouths, whole carcasses of pork or parts thereof, of sheep or parts thereof 
and of lamb or parts thereof to six months, the whole carcasses of veal or 
parts thereof to three months, of dressed fowl drawn to five months, of 
dressed fowl undrawn, ten months, eggs eight months, butter nine months 
and fish nine months. As a rule the law requires that goods which have 
been in cold storage shall be sold under a label advising the purchaser of 
their character. The Pennsylvania law even goes so far as to require that 
food sold from labeled containers must be wrapped in a package stamped 
on the outside with the words, “Wholesome Cold Storage Food.’ - The 
Massachusetts, Iowa, Louisiana, Nebraska and North Dakota laws require 
the display of a sign marked “Cold Storage Goods Sold Here.” The 
Indiana law requires only that eggs taken from cold storage be sold from 
a receptacle bearing the words, “Cold Storage.” All laws are uniform in 
requiring that goods be marked with the date of entry into storage and the 
date of withdrawal therefrom, except that the laws of New Jersey and 
Delaware require only the marking with date of entry and the Nebraska 
law does not require the date of withdrawal on goods to be shipped outside 
the State. In nearly every case the warehouseman is required to report 
the quantity of goods in storage to the proper officials at the end of each 
three months’ period. The Massachusetts law, however, requires the report 
but three times a year. This provision, while not in any way affecting the 
character of the goods in storage, is undoubtedly an attempt on the part of 
