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COLD STORAGE 



great emergencies and national crises is well illustrated by our 

 experience in exporting fresh meat to our soldiers and to most 

 of our allies during the World War. Hundreds of carloads of 

 fresh meats were rushed from the packers to the seaboard. Owing 

 to freight congestion and shortage of ships, much of this meat had 



Apr 



Jun. Aug. 

 1909 



FIG. 41. Cold storage 



L/U/7. 



1910 



Pounds of butter received and delivered. 



to be held weeks and even months before going overseas. Conse- 

 quently it was placed in cold storage warehouses, much of it going 

 into the empty apple warehouses in the neighborhood of Buffalo 

 and Rochester, New York. Here it was kept at several degrees 

 below the freezing point till shipping space was available, and then 

 it was forwarded to its destination without waste and without dete- 



