EGGS IN COLD STORAGE. 



CHAPTER I. 



TEMPERATURE. 



TEMPERATURE is selected for first considera- Temperature 

 . . . ., ,, ,. . . more important 



tion, as it is the primary elementoi reingeration, than any other 



Jf -,.,. ^ A condition. 



and more important than any other condition. Correct 

 temperature alone, however, will not produce success- 

 ful results, anymore than a g-ood air circulation, or cor- 

 rect ventilation, would give good results with a wrong- 

 temperature. This applies more especially to egg re- 

 frigeration, someproducts requiringonlyalowtemper- 

 ature for preservation. The common impression of 

 cold storage is what the name implies simply a build- 

 ing in which the rooms may be cooled to a low degree 

 as compared with the outside air. Even those who 

 build, sell and erect refrigerating machinery and appa- 

 ratus often show either gross carelessness or ignor- 

 ance of the requirements of a house which will produce 

 successful results. After a careful examination of 

 some of the recently constructed houses, supposed to 

 be strictly modern and up to date, the writer gets the 

 impression that the architects regard temperature 

 as the only requisite for perfect work. Some of the unskiiifuiiy 

 rooms in these new houses are simply insulated and e^j? m?ms. 

 fitted with brine or ammonia pipes, the location of the 

 coils having no attention whatever, being placed, in 

 most cases, in convenient proximity to the pipe main, 

 and in one or two instances, the top pipe of the cooling- 

 coils was fully two feet from the ceiling. The ne- 

 cessity of providing for air circulation seemed not 

 worthy of consideration, to say nothing of the lack of 

 anything like an efficient ventilating system. 



Questions regarding the correct temperature of Opinions 

 egg rooms have been asked repeatedly of storage correct'"* 



, - j.i ' i i temperature. 



men who have been in the business long enough to be 



