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434<br />

CORK INSULATION<br />

That precooling of the lading means fewer icings in transit is<br />

a matter of comm<strong>on</strong> knowledge. That hard freezing of the goods,<br />

whereby they not <strong>on</strong>ly do not require additi<strong>on</strong>al chilling in transit,<br />

but actually furnish refrigerati<strong>on</strong> to the car, is not so comm<strong>on</strong>ly<br />

recognized. Chart VI shows the temperatures in transit of 20,000<br />

pounds of poultry which went into the car at 0° F. The railroad<br />

icing record shows that 4,700 pounds of ice was added during the<br />

eight-day haul, and 470 pounds of salt. Other experiments, under<br />

comparable c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>s, show that nearly 5,000 pounds of ice is used<br />

by cars carrying 20,000 pounds of poultry chilled to 30-32" F. during<br />

a four-day haul, or approximately twice as much.<br />

The temperature records show that the poultry grew gradually<br />

warmer, faster <strong>on</strong> the top and bottom of the load, where the heat<br />

leakage from the roof and floor was most pr<strong>on</strong>ounced, and most<br />

slowlv in the center of the load, where the packages protected <strong>on</strong>e

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