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those who deserve well of mankind those who can trans- 
port two tons of food where only one was transported 
before. In effect that is what is made possible by the 
preservation of food through drying, for in drying, foods 
lose both bulk and weight. 
This reduction in weight of dried vegetables and 
fruits ranges from five-sixths to eleven-twelfths with 
even greater reduction in some cases. A California 
operator furnishes these figures for shrinkage: Pota- 
toes, about six to one; cabbage, about twenty to one; 
tomatoes, about twenty to one; spinach, about eighteen 
to one; turnips, fourteen to one; carrots, about nine to 
one. Less than three pounds of dried tomatoes, for in- 
stance, are equivalent to sixty pounds of canned toma- 
toes. Not only are the products much shrunken, when 
taken from the drier, but they may be still more com- 
pressed in packing so that the bulk is further lessened. 
This reduction in weight also lowers transportation 
costs. A shipping incident serves to illustrate clearly 
the economy involved. Fifty pounds of fresh Brussels 
sprouts were shipped in the winter of 1917-18 by ex- 
press from California to an eastern point at twelve 
cents a pound. Adding to this cost of $ 6.00 the cost of 
shipping with the vegetables one hundred pounds of 
ice at twelve cents a pound, there was a total transpor- 
tation charge of $18.00. The equivalent of these fifty 
pounds of fresh Brussels sprouts, namely three pounds 
of dried products, which required no ice, might have 
been shipped to the same point by parcel post for thirty- 
five or thirty-six cents. 
