HINTS ON FROZEN FISH. 



I. Gold Preserves Food Products. — That cold prevents putrefac- 

 tion and prevents fresh fish and other perishable products from decay, 

 is recognized by everybody. The careful housiewife always keeps her 

 milk, butter, poultry, etc.,, in a cool place, or in a kitchen refrigerator. 

 Efficient cold-storage permits articles of food to be kept for long 

 periods, and within certain limits, th^ere ig no essential change or 

 deterioration. 



II. Natures Wonderful Refrigeration. — The most extraordinary 

 instance of preservation by cold storage is that discovered in eastern 

 Siberia, 15 or 16 years ago, by Dr. O. F. Herz of Petrograd, namely, 

 a huge frozen mammoth elephant. This monstrous hairy elephant, or 

 mammoth, has been extinct for many thousands of years, but a speci- 

 men was found at the bottom of a hill on the Berosofka river, and had 

 evidently been killed by falling over a cliff. It became inibedded in 

 ice, where it had remained for over 2,000 years. Dr. Herz and his staff 

 excavated the monster out of its bed of ice. They found it in a lying 

 posture, with its feet t^ent beneath it, and its neck brokeri. There was 

 grass, in, its mouth and stomach, undigested, and the flesh had been 

 preserved in such a fresh state that a portion of the animal's trunk and 

 a small piece of the back, exposed during summer thaws, had been 

 eaten by wolves. The skin covered with thick brown hair, and the huge 

 body, were excellently preserved. It was a case of refrigeration on a 

 wonderful scale by "Mother INature". Similar cases of fresh portions 

 of mammoth preserved in ice sheets were discovered in the Klondike 

 region of Canada by gold-miners. If Nature preserves such huge 

 animals in a fresh condition for twenty centuries, it is surely not diffi- 

 cult for modem ingenuity to devise schemes for perfect preservation 

 in cold storage. 



III. Advantages in Freezing Fish. — Food preservation has now 

 become so perfected that the world's markets in the future will depend 



