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milk absorbs odors very readily, and no 

 bad odors should be allowed to accumu- 

 late in the cooling room. All fruit must 

 be removed before it rots. Meats must 

 not be allowed to become stale. Meat, 

 eggs and milk must be freely exposed to 

 the air in the cooling room. Apples or 

 pears may be kept in tight barrels or 

 crates, and butter in air-tight stone jars 

 or other packages. It is quite apparent 

 that where several kinds of products are 

 kept in the same cooling room, the dif- 



eliminates the constant difference be- 

 tween the supply and the consumption 

 of food products. The farmer, however, 

 gets little or no advantage from the oper- 

 ation of these immense refrigeration 

 plants. They prevent the operation of 

 the natural law of supply and demand. 

 The farmer's products are bought up 

 when the price is at the lowest ebb, and 

 held for an artificially high price at a 

 season when the farmer has nothing of 

 the sort to sell and cannot, therefore, re- 



Fig. 196 — COMMERCIAL ICE CREAM PLANT 



ferent products must, so far as possible, 

 be kept from contamination with the 

 odors of other materials. This is to be 

 accomplished through air circulation by 

 having the ice above the cooling room, 

 so that air currents come down from the 

 ice, taking moisture, heat and odor from 

 each article in storage and returning by 

 another course to the ice. Ventilation 

 from the ice through the roof will then 

 remove impurities. 



Commercial refrigeration and the 

 farmer — The commercial cold storage 

 plant serves as an accumulator which 



ceive any benefit from the high prices. 

 In other words, commercial cold storage, 

 as at present operated, tends to prevent 

 the consumer from obtaining food prod- 

 ucts except at a high price, and to pre- 

 vent the farmer from selling food prod- 

 ucts except at a low price. Aside from 

 the use of cold storage on a small scale 

 at home, the farmer cannot hope for any 

 benefit from refrigeration, unless he 

 goes into large co-operative schemes, or 

 deposits his products in cold storage at a 

 stipulated monthly rent and retains en- 

 tire control of his own products. 



