SECTION C. 



METHODS OF PREPARATION. 



I. PREPARATION AND PRESERVATION OF FOOD. 



1. PRESERVATION DURING LIFE (see under E, 3). 



2. PRESERVATION OF FRESH MEATS. 



Refrigerators. 



Ice-boxes and refrigerators. 



. Allegretti iceberg-refrigerator. Allegretti Refrigerator Company, 



[New York. 

 . Allegretti refrigerator show-case. " 



Banta refrigerator. 



Banta horizontal refrigerator. 



. Banta refrigerator show-case. Process patented July 1, 1867. G. 



A. Banta, New York City. 

 . Zero refrigerator. Alexander M. Lesley, New York. 



Kefrigerator-cars. 

 (Accessory.) The ice-trade : 



Ice cutting and handling apparatus. 



Methods of manufacturing artificial ice. 



Ice-houses. 



Other accessories of preservation. 



Meat-hooks. 

 Skewers, &c. 

 Carving-tools, 



3. PRESERVATION BY DRYING. 

 Sim-drying apparatus. 



Beach dryers. 

 Flake-drying: 



Newfoundland flakes. 



Massachusetts flakes. 



12495. Codfish-flake (with covers). Model. Coast of Maine. E. Skilliugs, 

 Portland, Me. 



