. The Saturday evening post. Manchester,New Hampshire 136 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST November 27,1920. Clean ice-boxes No housekeeper takes better care ofher house or her refrigerator than wetake of our refrigerator cars. You are so used to having your meatcome to you clean, fresh, and whole-some that you take it as a matter ofcourse. But every refrigerator car thatyou see go rolling by represents scien-tific, painstaking care in preparationfor its journey. Every time a car is returned it is washedout thoroughly with scalding water. When the car is thoroughly cleanedwe put 2 or 3 tons of ice an
. The Saturday evening post. Manchester,New Hampshire 136 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST November 27,1920. Clean ice-boxes No housekeeper takes better care ofher house or her refrigerator than wetake of our refrigerator cars. You are so used to having your meatcome to you clean, fresh, and whole-some that you take it as a matter ofcourse. But every refrigerator car thatyou see go rolling by represents scien-tific, painstaking care in preparationfor its journey. Every time a car is returned it is washedout thoroughly with scalding water. When the car is thoroughly cleanedwe put 2 or 3 tons of ice and 500 to750 pounds of salt in the ice salt forces the melting of the ice,which in turn cools the car. By the time the car is ready to receiveits load, this first ice has largely meltedand 2 or 3 tons more of ice and salthave to be put in to keep the car andits contents cool. The meat is then loaded into the car,great care being taken to see that thequarters of beef and cases of other products are properly spaced to insurea free circulation of cold air. Each 24hours thereafter more ice
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