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the application for subsidy is limited to warehouses which are constructed 

 under plans subject to the approval of the Department of Agriculture. 



Cold storage is defined as the holding of food products at or below the 

 temperature of 40° F. in warehouses refrigerated for that purpose. A cold 

 storage or refrigerating warehouse is held to be an establishment employ- 

 ing refrigerating machinery or ice for the purpose of refrigeration in which 

 articles of food are stored for thirty days or more at a temperature of 40° 

 F. or below. This provision varies somewhat in the several States. The 

 State of Nebraska, for instance, requires that goods must be held in storage 

 for sixty days before being legally cold-stored, while a bill pending in the 

 State of Connecticut holds that eggs must be labeled "Cold Storage" if held 

 for more than fifteen days. The time limit imposed by most of the laws is 

 the natural limit of twelve months, that is, from one productive season to 

 the next. The time limit, however, is not uniform in the several States. The 

 State of Pennsylvania fixes a different limit for different articles of food. 

 It limits the storage of whole carcasses of beef or parts thereof to four 

 months, whole carcasses of pork or parts thereof, of sheep or parts thereof 

 and of lamb or parts thereof to six months, the whole carcasses of veal or 

 parts thereof to three months, of dressed fowl drawn to five months, of 

 dressed fowl undrawn, ten months, eggs eight months, butter nine months 

 and fish nine months. As a rule the law requires that goods which have 

 been in cold storage shall be sold under a label advising the purchaser of 

 their character. The Pennsylvania law even goes so far as to require that 

 food sold from labeled containers must be wrapped in a package stamped 

 on the outside with the words, '"Wholesome Cold Storage Food.'' The 

 Massachusetts, Iowa, Louisiana, Nebraska and North Dakota laws require 

 the display of a sign marked "Cold Storage Goods Sold Here." The 

 Indiana law requires only that eggs taken from cold storage be sold from 

 a receptacle bearing the words, "Cold Storage." All laws are uniform in 

 requiring that goods be marked with the date of entry into storage and the 

 date of withdrawal therefrom, except that the laws of New Jersey and 

 Delaware require only the marking with date of entry and the Nebraska 

 law does not require the date of withdrawal on goods to be shipped outside 

 the State. In nearly every case the warehouseman is required to report 

 the quantity of goods in storage to the proper officials at the end of each 

 three months' period. The Massachusetts law, however, requires the report 

 but three times a year. This provision, while not in any way affecting the 

 character of the goods in storage, is undoubtedly an attempt on the part of 





