A NEW PROCESS OF PRESERVATION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 153, 7 May 1879, Page 2

A NEW PROCESS OF PRESERVATION.

Henry Scliunamann, an unassuming German, is, says a New York paper, the discoverer of a valuable process for preserving fruits, vegetables, dairy produce, and a variety of other articles of food, The process of preserving, which is performed, with certain chemicals in solution, is very simple and inexpensive, and will, if it proves the success it is claimed to be, revolutionise the trade in many perishable articles of consumption. An idea may be formed of the value of the discovery from a brief description of what was submitted to the reporter's inspection by Mr Scliunamann. Eggs which were dipped in the solution fourteen months ago and laid away, on being broken, were found to be as fresh as when laid. Pineapples, limes, oranges, lemons, and other fauits, woro also exhibited, which had been kept for months, These, too, were fresh and sweet, and, on being cut, tho flavor and pungency was as perfect as in freshly plucked fruit. Fresh butter, placed in the solution and kept there for sometime, tasted like the churning of yesterday. Two jars of ketchup were opened in November last; in one was poured a quantity of the solution, and the other was left in its natural state. In one day the ketchup left untouched had turned, and green mould appeared to grow on it. The contents of the jar charged with the solution was in perfect condition Cologne sausages and specimens of dried moats were also exhibited. These had undergone the preserving process months ago, and were, when shown, in perfect order. Many other instances could be given of the wonderful arrest of the progress of decay caused by the solution; but enough has been cited to show what can bo done with the discovery. It is stated that eggs can be purchased at many points in tho Union for a few cents per dozen, preserved by the solution at a cost of but one-fourth of a cent per dozen, and shipped to any part of the world, taking months in their transit, and when opened will be guaranteed perfectly fresh. So, too, with fruits bought in their season at the cheapest mart; they can also be preserved and shipped, and sold at any port, or any time of the year. The discoverer has been offered a large sum for his discovery, but seeing millions in it, he proposes to organise a joint stock company to commence active operations. Ho is willing to submit articles preserved by his process to any teat, and in other ways offers to prove the value and genuineness of the wonderful preservative poAbi claimed for the discovery.