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Title: Canadian grocer January-March 1918
Year: 1918 (1910s)
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Subjects: Supermarkets Grocery trade Food industry and trade
Publisher: Toronto : Maclean-Hunter Pub. Co. (1887)-
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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any number of grocers, aswell as consumers, who do not clearlyunderstand the technicalities of cold stor-age. There is an idea rather prevalentamong those who do not understand thedistinctions that being in cold storagemeans that an article is frozen, kept ata temperature below the freezing point,forgetting that many commodities placedin cold storge must not be frozen. Eggs, fruit and many other things must not befrozen. Dried fruits are placed in coldstorage and the houses that own largestocks of shellac and gum of variousstyles place it in cold storage. An article in cold storage is kept atsuch a temperature as accomplishes thepurpose, namely, to preserve the articlein a perfectly normal, natural condition.The temperature of that room maybe any-where from fifty degrees above to sev-eral degrees below zero, according tothe requirements and the nature of thecommodity. Perhaps the most important use of re-frigeration in the marketing of the moreperishable merchandise is in its applica-
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An attractive produce window of the Vernon Meat Market, Vernon, B.C. 44 CANADIAN GROCER January 18, 1918 tion to transportation. By the use ofthe refrigerator car and of the pre-cool-ing devices an even temperature ismaintained throughout the rail journey,even during the hottest weather of mid-summer. The successful operation of therefrigerator car depends upon the pro-per attention to re-icing. Owing to thehigh temperature of the fruit, at leasttwenty-four hours are required to reducethe temperature to about thirty-eight de-grees Fahrenheit. In recent years, bythe pre-cooling of fruit before the ship-ment is started much time has beensaved and the fruit, instead of having itstemperature reduced while* in transit,starts at the proper temperature, a lessconsumption of ice being the result. Effect of Cold Storage In the case of apples in storage a lowtemperature is maintained. By properattention to details winter apples maybe held in cold storage far beyond theirseason in common storage

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