Have More In Winter, Too!
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We bought our freezer shortly before Pearl Harbor and paid
$440 for it. It is a 13 cubic foot cabinet and holds
approximately 700 pounds of food. The price we paid was
high, but few freezers had been made at the time we bought
ours. Now, many large companies are building them, with
mass production the price is lower; $230 for one similar to
ours.
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Many people have been using frozen food lockers which have
rented for $6-$15 a year. If the locker plant is situated
conveniently to your home, you may prefer this method of
having a frozen food supply. A locker plant usually offers
the convenience, of packaging and cutting meat for you and
also provides a place to hang and cool meat before
freezing.
However, I personally prefer a quick-freezer at home where
I can tuck away a few boxes of fruits or vegetables or a
small quantity of meat as I find time to prepare them. When
you are raising large quantities of your own food, it may
become practical to use both a home freezer and a locker,
as you would then have the convenience of both
arrangements. Or another plan would be to build (or have
built) your own freezer room and cool room.
From our own experience we have learned several things
about buying and running a freezer. We made a serious
mistake in placing our freezing cabinet in our garage where
the temperature drops below freezing in the winter. We
discovered that such low temperatures prevent the motor
from operating properly, so we now have it in our "Harvest
Room." After having our freezer break down once and losing
some of our hard-earned foods, we know now that there
should be some signal to warn you when the temperature
rises above the danger point. There should also be
instructions fastened on the freezer to tell you when and
where to oil the motor. These things we learned from our
one bitter lesson and we wanted to pass them along. It pays
to buy a good cabinet from a reputable dealer and with so
many new designs developed during the war years it will be
wise to look over a number of freezers before choosing
yours. Whatever your intentions are on using a freezer, we
would certainly recommend getting one with a special
compartment for quick-freezing your own food.
We certainly believe that food freez ers widely distributed
will make as phenomenal a change in this country as did low
priced cars. With a good freezer and a little piece of land
you can be just about as independent and as secure as you
wish. The freezer can be the secret of one goal all we
Americans constantly work for - freedom from want. Anyhow,
that's what our freezer means to us.
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