Salt Lake Telegram | 1914-01-10 | Page 11 | Uncle Sam Probing Gizzard of Chicken Industry for Fraud

V Uncle Sam Probing Gizzard of Chicken Ind Industry fo for Fraud Special to Tho The Telegram W WASHINGTON D. D C. C Jan 10 Undo Uncle V Sam Sam is sinking n a federal probe into tho gizzard of or the chick chickS chickSon I of the thc nation Tho on en industry department de do- of f is is convinced that thai unscrupulous shippers are arc fattening fattening fat int t 11 chickens chicken on rock an and sand sandin sindin in food mixtures mixture The 1018 department estimates V that NOW New York rork City City- buys every over week Irons from to poun pounds d dof of of rock and sand Naud substances for which arc are paid tho h prevailing pro poultry poul poul- try market marl pt prices Starved on route loutt the animals have havo such ravenous raven raven- oils ous appetites that upon arrival at atthe atthe atthe the marJ market et they cat with avidity the paste haste preparation composed of wheat lings and meal n mixed with sand amid and gravel rael