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Mr. HoGiiE. It takes only 25 per cent as much storage room. 



Senator Noeeis. And you would release men who prepare the 

 food by having it already prepared ? 



Mr. HoGLE. Yes, sir; by having it entirely prepared. You can see 

 they are all ready to cook — peeled and sliced and ready to cook — 

 and when they are cooked they can not be distinguished from fresh 

 products by anyone. 



Senator Noeris. I wish you would tell a little more about the 

 process. I am curious to know about it. I confess it is new to me. 



Mr. HoGLE. It is new, and the difficulties we have met have been 

 principally on account of its being new. We are facing the same 

 skepticism that confronts every new idea, which confronted the 

 telephone and wireless and everything else. 



Senator Noeris. It is not a drying process? 



Mr. HoGLE. No, sir ; it is a curing process. 



Senator Norris. The effect of it is about the same? 



Mr. HoGLE. No, sir. 



Senator Norris. Take this potato. What has happened to that? 

 You have taken the moisture out of it ? 



Mr. HoGLE. That is very true. 



Senator Norris. That is the same as they do when they dry it. 



Mr. HoGLE. I know; but the results are entirely different when 

 the moisture is removed by this process as against any other process 

 known. In fact, our patent attorneys have advised us, after con- 

 ferring with the Commissioner of Patents, that this is the reverse of 

 every other process of drying that has ever been attempted, and 

 the results speak for themselves. 



Senator Norris. Take this sample of corn on the cob here. 



Mr. HoGLE. Yes, sir. 



Senator Noeris. That is cooked, all ready to eat, is it not ? 



Mr. HoGLE. No, sir; that is raw corn. There is the cob right 

 alongside of it ; that is, the cob for that one in the bottle — the same 

 kind of corn. 



Senator Noeeis. Yes ; that has been in water in this can ? 



Mr. HoGLE. That is just water, with benzoate of soda to keep it 

 sweet ; that is all. 



Senator Norris. And the finished product by your process 



Mr. HoGLE (interposing). Is raw, ready to cook. 



Senator Noreis. Yes ; but it is not this size. 



Mr. HoGLE. When we get through with it it is like that. _ When 

 you buy it as a consumer, you take it and soak it, and when it soaks 

 back to actual normal size you take it and boil it. 



Senator Noeeis. This I hold in my hand is the finished product? 



Mr. HoGUE. Yes, sir. 



Senator Noeeis. And this in the can is the finished product,, 

 soaked ? 



Mr. HoGLE. Yes, sir. 



The Chaiejiax. And the shrinkage is just about the same as re- 



IfitGd liGrG ? 



Mr HoGM. The Government figures show, based on some 4,000 

 tests, 'that the shrinkage is from 60 to 94 per cent; for instance, 

 cauliflower. 94 per cent; potatoes, 62 per cent. ^ ^ • ^u 



Senator Noeeis. The space occupied by the finished product is the 

 same space that would be occupied by the product if dried, is it not? 



