A writer in Packing and Shipping, New York, as recorded
in the Literary Digest, refers to the new method of forwarding fish by post. It has been practised in California for some years, and has been recently introduced into the Eastern States. The fish are cleaned, dressed and filleted before being posted, and are packed in specially designed cartons. After the cleaning the pre-cooling takes place, and each fish is placed in an insulated shipping carton. This is how the American paper describes the process :- " One unique feature of the shiiving carton is the insulation inside. This is in the form of air chambers which are filled with dry sea grass and a top cover of the same kind provided. The edible parts of the fish are wrapped up in two-pound packages, in vegetable parchment paper and tied with a ribbon of tying material. No preservative is used. The success of this new system is attributed to the fact that by having a hermetically sealed compartment with the commodity pre-cooled, a low temperature is maintained until the box is opened at destination. In fact. it has been found that a fish carton can ride forty-eight hours without damage to the contents."
TANTUM.
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