Show BEST METHODS IN POULTRY american farmer is ifs much to t learn tomake chicken profitable iroff table European ways waya good i by M K X BOYER an english journal says bays that whet they have a look at the average english farmers egg basket and a continental egg box there is much to be seen and learned in the farmers basket will be found eggs of all r sizes shapes tints and colors there has been no attempt at grading or uniformity if a farmer betsan even lot of eggs all brown he can sell them at 14 for 23 cents a shilling butge but he would have to sell fifteen eggs of hla his jumbled up lot for the same price the continental eggs are all evenly and securely packed alt all of one color and graded according to size alze the condition of ct the english farm fann ers egg basket Is very much like the egg 99 basket of the american farmer e chere there Is a reason for lt it so long as a the farmer will continue to harbor mongrel poultry he be Is sure to have a all colors an and sizes of eggs nothing but a well selected and well bred strain of a single breed will give the desired uniformity in england there are two or three methods employed by poulter ers for killing their stock one by neck stretching bychich by which the fowl Is seized by the hocks the finger and thumb of the tree free hand being placed on the pou poll and the neck is stretched until the spinal cord Is ruptured death la Is instantaneous as well as aa painless and the blood flows down into the cavity of the neck the other method is to secure the tha fowl as above stun it by means of a smart tap at the base of the skull then open its beak and thrust a sharp inloe down its ita throat and withdraw it rapidly by pressing the keen edgo edge against the back of the throat the beak to Is then rinsed and the legs scrubbed with a stiff brush and soapy water kater which makes them bright and cleall tor for simple tample trussing for market |