The editor of the Woman's Home Companion, discussing the important subject of clean groceries in the February issue, takes the readers right into the factory itself:
"Here is one of the greatest food factories in the world. All told, it covers twenty-three acres of floor space.
"Here in the cellar, you will find the flour, sacks piled upon sacks, seventy-two thousand of them, before your eyes, and all that flour intended for the manufacture of just one brand of crackers made by this firm.
"Flour in a cellar! 'Ah,' you say, 'it may mold.'
"It can't. That cellar would put your kitchen floor to shame. It shines. It is dry as a bone. And for the further protection of that flour, it is not allowed to rest on the cement floor, but is piled on great trays or shelves raised several inches from the flooring, with a current of air between.
"Now they are ready to mix cracker dough, and the great sacks of flour are carried by elevators to the upper floor, where sack after sack is turned into what looks like a huge iron bath tub on rollers. When the required quantity of flour is in this 'tub,' really a great mixing pan, it is rolled under the most wonderful spigots, thru which flow three sorts of filtered water—boiling hot, ice cold, and the precise temperature of the city water. These are blended by an equally wonderful thermometer and barometer until they are at exactly the right temperature. Then, measured by meter, the water is turned into the flour. The sponge tub is rolled over to a mighty mixer, worked by machinery, and here, for the first time, a human hand touches it. When the head baker thinks this sponge is about rightly mixed, he touches it. Like your grandmother and mine, he says he can judge its texture best by actual touch. And his hands are as clean as his uniform which is saying more than can be said for the average housewife in the average kitchen."
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