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COLD STORAGE 



It will be noted that the large volume of "meats in storage" 

 represents in part unfinished goods in process of curing and in 

 part the normal working supply to assure a steady volume. 



The cold storage business is growing rapidly, not only in the 

 United States, but in many other countries. Indeed, so important 



FIG. 43. Packing-house products stored in a public cold storage warehouse in Chicago. 



is the business to public welfare that various countries are now 

 promoting the building of cold storage warehouses. Thus a con- 

 sular agent of our government reported recently that the Swedish 

 State was building a refrigerating plant at Hallsberg, Sweden, 

 for the freezing of meat, fish, and other foods, having a capacity 

 of four thousand tons. The backward state of cold storage in 

 Russia during the World War was described by our consular gen- 

 eral at Moscow in these words: 



