APPENDIX. 



TREND OF LEGISLATION REGULATING THE COLD STORAGE OF 

 FOODS, AND OPINIONS EVOKED THEREBY, ESPECIALLY WITH 

 REFERENCE TO DRAWN AND UNDRAWN POULTRY, ETC. 



GENERAL DISCUSSION AROUSED BY PROPOSED CHICAGO ORDINANCE. 



In 1906 an ordinance was introduced in the Chicago council to 

 exclude from the city trade all undrawn poultry or animals as food 

 products. 



In the course of the discussion which this bill evoked Runnels and 

 Burry, attorneys for the cold-storage warehouse interests, issued a 

 pamphlet dealing not only with the question of drawn and undrawn 

 poultry, but with cold-storage conditions in general, and from which 

 the following extracts are taken. 



In regard to the quantity of material stored they state: 



About twenty million pounds of poultry are cold stored in Chicago each year, and 

 there are stored proportionate amounts of butter, cheese, meats, game, eggs, and other 

 food products. 



In a letter from a large western firm the statement is made: 



We bring to the city of Chicago for storage annually 6,000,000 pounds of poultry, 

 300 carloads of eggs, and 100 carloads of butter, * * * 5 per cent is sold for Chi- 

 cago consumption. The other 95 per cent is sold for consumption in cities outside of 

 the State of Illinois or abroad. 



During the month of January of the year 1906 this firm shipped 

 to Liverpool and London 1,000,000 pounds of poultry. The business 

 of tins firm during the year then just past (1905) had exceeded 

 $1,500,000. 



In dealing with the question of the length of time the various cold- 

 stored products should be or may be carried, the pamphlet cited 

 makes the following statements : 



Eggs and apples, which are perhaps stored more extensively than any other com- 

 modities, can not by any system of cooling or refrigeration be kept a year in cold 

 storage, and they are usually taken from storage in a much shorter time than that. 

 Probably few apples are kept over six months in cold storage. * * * Eggs are put 

 in storage during the months of April, May, June, July, and a few in August. April 

 and May eggs keep best. In selling them the owner sells the latest eggs first, so that 

 July and August eggs are never in storage more than from two to four months, while 

 April and May eggs are closed out usually during December and January. Some 

 eggs remain, therefore, in storage more than six months, but the rule is that they are 

 to be disposed of by the first of February. 

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