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Dr. Pennington: We are using public refrigeration houses. 



Delegate : Isn't it one of the difficulties of cold storage taking care 

 of the stuff after it leaves there? It seems to me it wouldn't keep very long 

 after it comes out of cold storage. 



Dr. Pennington: I might say that in modern cold storage plants 

 they are never out of the proper temperature. 



Mr. Horne: In Atlantic City yesterday, in discussing the question 

 of apples, it was stated that apples after being taken out of cold storage 

 kept better than apples kept in common storage, and after being taken out 

 of storage they showed up better than apples kept in common storage for 

 a like period. 



Delegate : How about peaches? 



Mr. Horne: Peaches in cold storage are not kept for a long time, 

 generally or usually only for several weeks or a month. 



Delegate : I notice the skin usually falls off. 



Mr. Horne : I have been in the business for quite a number of years, 

 and peaches never kept over a month or six weeks; that is the limit. 



Mrs. Smith: Is it the consensus of opinion among cold-storage people 

 interested in cold storage, that there should be a cold storage law? 



Mr. Horne: There is a law which provides for selling cold storage 

 goods for what they are. They passed a measure restricting the time 

 limits. 



Mr. Brown: How would you remove the prejudice from the con- 

 sumer's mind that the price is established through cold storage houses? 



Mr. Horne : That is quite a problem. I think our friends are reason- 

 able men whom we have had listening to us, and who will study the subject 

 honestly and deliberately. I am sure when we get a fair chance at them, 

 and I believe I am stating a fact, that the reporters who are here represent- 

 ing the newspapers are not responsible for what is contained in the news- 

 papers, but the city editor's fault who is looking for sensation, for something 

 that is unusual. The usual, regular, wholesome news is not the stuff they 

 want to print, or put in their headlines. 



Delegate: You are right on that. 



Delegate : How do you provide for your marketing? 



Dr. Pennington : We market twice a week, make our menus ten days 

 ahead. We take out a basket load of meats each week. Of course, butter 

 and eggs, peaches and fruits, are easier to handle. It is your fish and 

 poultry you must start on time. The basket comes out Thursday because 

 we have fish Friday, and fish is the first thing you must use Friday night, 

 thawed out and ready to eat. Always leave it thaw out where it is cool and 

 dry. Fish, Friday night, Saturday night, chops, and on Sunday, roast. 

 In the summer time you place your meat in the refrigerator so it ripens 



