GENESIS OF FROZEN MEAT INDUSTRY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 65, 10 December 1907, Page 3

GENESIS OF FROZEN MEAT INDUSTRY.

ATTRIBUTED TO LORD FRANCIS BACON. The Baconiau theory has been applied to almost ovory idea :ou tho world's , earth, writes our Wairarapa correspondent, but it is not generally known to our New Zealand farmers that the great l philosopher first discovered tho value of rofrigeration for ( thbpreservation of dead meat, and,'in fact, died • martyr to his discovery.' Bacon conceived tho idea, and put it into practice by stuffing the disembowelled body of a dead fowl with Bnow. He performed the operation himself, in the streets of London on a very cold day, and caught a chill which settled on his lhngs and very soon killed him. When at the point of death, however; with nerveless fingers, which could hardly grasp a pen, he , recorded the success of the ■ refrigerating scheme.' It is a far cry from Bacon's frozen fowl in the timo of James I, to the millions of carcases of .the twentieth century, but it is quite possible that if the hisror7 of the industry were traced back it would be found that its genesis was in the ■ mind of the great Englishman.