Show For Poultry Raises Raisers The Department of Agriculture I ture at Washington ashington has just issued a very interesting circular on Government Advice to Poultry Poultry Poul Poul- try Shippers that is interesting to all poultry r men Following I are points of interest to the Basin farmers For 24 hours before killing killing- the bird is not fed but is given plenty of clean water In this way the crop is emptied and the flavor of I the flesh is improved as well as its keeping quality Of course the bird does docs not weigh as much when emptied of food but it is better to be paid for a few less pounds of poultry th than n to receive only a n freight bill Killing should be bo done by cutting cutting cutt cutt- ing the veins of the neck from inside the mouth while the bird is suspended by bv the feet feet lar 61 of the Bureau of Chemistry Chemis Chemis- try gives the details of how to bleed and to brain that brain that is to loosen the feather muscles gf so that the birds may mav be bC dry nicked picked not scalded Scalded birds have their keeping qualities greatly reduced Holding the bird while I ing ing- ng the feathers is best accomplished accomplished by the frame method The second best way is what i is known as the string method Iud and the wor worst t methods are the the bench and lap After the birds are bled and picked nicked the animal heat must be bp removed The best method of of doing so is iF to hang them head I downward in iu a room having a n I temperature between 30 o and 35 I degrees Fahrenheit where they should remain for 24 21 hours The temperature mu must t not go above 35 nor below 29 degrees deg md nd the atmosphere cannot be I depended upon to remain within thc these se limits hence mechanical refrigeration is an i absolute necessity If the packers hackers last season had adhered to this one c regulation tion it is safe to assert that the inspectors in the markets markets mar mar- marc c would have had to hunt i 1 long time for a struck green or off oIT conditioned chicken Putting the birds in cold water j or ryr water wlter and ice ire to cool them is bad and packing t tn n fine ice with a heavy lumy of neon eon e on top of the barrel is a continuation continuation con coil conj j of an unreliable and d often often often of of- ten very disastrous method Circulars 1 fl 1 64 61 and 70 Bureau Bur BtU eau onn of 1111 nd Yearbook article No 5 all dealing with th the handling of dressed poultry ill he ho cent o or on aPr ri to t tt the Department of Agriculture as I long Inner is as I the supply for distribution distribution I tion lasts o 0 |