Show uu DOING AWAY WITH HAND WORK Device Sought by Which Poultry MayBe May-Be Artificially Plucked Six turkeys slain that morning revolved re-volved slowly on a kind of spit In a small room on tho ground floor of a great poultry farm and as they revolved re-volved they were miraculously plucked Invisible hands stripped off their plumage the air was gray with falling fall-ing feathers Wind plucked turkeysIt Is an experiment ex-periment said the foreman Those birds are being plucked by cross currents cur-rents of electrically driven air But experiment Is not a commercial success suc-cess For many years we have tried to Invent a pouJtr > lJluckng machine We have not succeeded well Alrplucklng seems to be the Idea that offers most promise but it still wants a lot of working out Yet eventually I have no doubt these turkeys that now take a half hour and cost ten cents apiece to pluck by air will be air plucked In a few seconds and at no more cost than ten cents a thousand |