SECTION C. 
METHODS OF PREPARATION. 
I. PREPARATION AND PRESERVATION OF FOOD 
1. PRESERVATION DURING LIFE, (see under E, 3.) 
2. PRESERVATION OF FRESH MEATS. 
a. Refrigerators : 
Ice- boxes and refrigerators. 
Refrigerator-cars. 
(Accessory.) The ice-trade: 
Ice cutting and handling apparatus. 
Methods of manufacturing artificial ice. 
Ice-houses. 
b. Other accessories of preservation : 
Meat-books. 
Skewers, &c. 
Carving-tools. 
3. PRESERVATION BY DRYING. 
a. Sun-drying apparatus: 
Beach dryers. 
Flake-drying : 
Newfoundland flakes. 
Massachusetts flakes. 
Covers for fish-drying. 
b. Smoke-drying apparatus : 
Herring smoke-houses. 
Halibut smoke-houses. 
Salmon smoke-houses. 
Sturgeon smoke-houses. 
Aboriginal drying-houses. 
Methods of drying haliotis, used by the igine of California. 
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