Cold Storage of Eggs.

Manawatu Herald, 26 July 1902, Page 3

Cold Storage of Eggs.

14 is estimated that about one million eggs have passed through the Victorian odd storage ohambers in the past sis or seven months, and that tha amount paid to the Government for freezing and storage was <B7OO, leaving a profit to the speculators, who placed the produce in the ohambers, of something over 82000. When the eggs were bought the ruling price was from 7Jd to 8d per dozen, and by the time they were taken out for sale or to be used by the owners, the price had increased to Is dd and over, reaching as high as Is 6d per dozen* The cost ofstorage for thirty weeks came to about 2Jd per dozen, this including the mainof a,temperature of from 88 to 85 degree*. The results of the experiments with cold storage so far have been perfectly satisfactory (adds the “ Australasian ”) not only on account of the cheapness of treatment, but because the eggs at six months old open up as sound and tree from characteristic flavour as When they were newly laid. The troubles of the past in connection with setting eggs aside for the season of scarcity and dearness have been those associated with unpleasant flavours derived from packing or from the process of preservation treatment. All faults are absent from the cold lioreage method, and it is probable that in the incoming season the Agricultural Department will make arrangements for more fully meeting the demands for space that are regarded as certain to be made.