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Elon Jessup to Horace Kephart, January 21, 1920

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  • In a letter to Horace Kephart on January 21, 1920, Elon Jessup writes about food dehydration, the equipment needed to perform dehydration and companies that sell dehydrated products.
  • JfllOiMxm OUTING OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY 141.145 WEST 36th ST. ^--4 NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT Editorial January SI, 1920. Mr. Horace Kephart, Bryson City, N. C« Dear Mr. Kephart: I have just talked with Mrs. Andrea upon dehydrating matters and find that she is doing some quite astonishing things in an experimental way. The main drawback to home dehydration at the present time seems to be that there is no adequate machine made to work with* Government instructions upon how to make a maohine at home do not appear to be entirely practicable. The machine Mrs. Andrea uses is one that has just been invented by some one else and in due time will be manufaoturered. She says that it does the work perfectly. It costs about ten or fifteen dollars. It is not obtainable as yet. With this she has dehydrated all kinds of fruits and vegetables and has been very successful with meats. She showed me several pieces of beefsteak and liver« The same thing has been done with fish. She had samples of halibut steaks, oysters and clams. Mrs. Andrea's borther, also an authority upon the subjeot was very critical of the American Dehydrating Co. products. He said that these people had done more to hurt the cause than anything else in the country. He recommended very highly the produots of the Keystone Instant Food Company, 405 Lexington Av., K. Yo and those of the King Products Co., Portland, Oregon* The Keystone people have several mixed meat products. There is anether company known as the Flanders Co., Detroit, Mich., which was well spoken of. If you will write to these people I am sure they will be glad to send samples and full information. I intend myself to write for samples for possible mention in the 0. K. Department. Also, will probably write a short article for my department; I think this will deal mainly en Mrs. Andrea*s experimental work and would hardly interfere with anything you have planned. If anything further upon the subjeot comes up I will let you know. In the Spring Mrs. Andrea is bringing out a book upon dehydration which should be well worth reading. This book seems to cover the subject quite thoroughly. EJ/DS