Photograph from U. S. Department of Agriculture 



RENDERING LARD IN A CHICAGO PACKING-HOUSE 



Ask your cook what dishes she would be able to prepare for you if she had no lard, butter, 



nor oil 



under the economies that have been ef- 

 fected through the packing-house idea the 

 margin is approximately only half as 

 much. What the prices for our steaks 

 and roasts would be if the margin of 

 price between meat on the hoof and meat 

 in cold storage were as great as it used to 

 be, one can only surmise ! 



THE RISE OF REFRIGERATION 



How one step in the progress of cater- 

 ing to the world's food demands makes 

 another possible is nowhere better shown 

 than in the case of the packing industry. 

 When that humble citizen of Florida, 

 John Gorrie, invented the ice - making 

 machine, he not only enabled the whole 

 world to know the delights of a plentiful 

 supply of cold water, but he also made it 

 possible to exchange its perishable prod- 

 ucts, so that the tropics might give to the 

 temperate zone their fruits, and the tem- 

 perate zone might send to the tropics 

 their excellent corn-fed meats and other 

 cold-storage foods. 



Once there were entire nations where 

 only the favored few ever knew the re- 

 freshing experience of a cold drink, and 

 it always happened that these nations 

 were situated in those regions where a 

 cold drink means most to humanity. The 

 ice factory, which has meant so much to 

 us in its relation to our own food supply, 

 has brought the delights of ice-cream and 

 soda water to those hundreds of millions 

 of people who live between Capricorn 

 and Cancer, the while it has given them 

 Chicago, Omaha, Kansas City, and St. 

 Joseph meats. 



Cold storage is destined to play an in- 

 creasingly important part in the handling 

 of the world's food supply as tbe years 

 go by and the demands for food increase. 

 It is less than four decades since the first 

 cargo of beef chilled by machinery in- 

 stead of by ice was shipped, but today 

 the funnels of refrigerator ships trace 

 their lines of smoke upon every horizon. 



Any one who has lived on a farm and 

 has seen the amount of wastage there is 



