| Show PACKED DRY-PACKED FOWLS FAVORED Bird Should Never Be Wet Until It Gets Final Quick Rinsing Off in Housewife's Kitchen Wet-packing Wet a broiler and sending It to market In Ice causes It to lose 13 per cent of Its value while fowls lose about ten per pee per cent according to investigations by the United States department of agriculture If It dry- dry packed broilers are worth 40 cents wet-packed wet broilers are not worth more than 35 cents and If packed dry-packed fowls cost 30 cents wet packed ones should not cost more moro than 27 21 cents cent The Tho department specialists point out that consumers who pay the same price for packed dry-packed ones are 10 losing money A chicken thrown Into water Ice-water to remove animal heat and sent to market mar mar- ket Iet ket-In ket In a barrel In direct contact with cracked Ice it is out absorbs water for which the consumer has to pay chicken prices The water also dissolves out from the chicken valuable valuable valuable able flavoring and nutritive substances sub sub- stances These go Into the water at atthe atthe atthe the bottom of the barrel along with filth that is 18 washed from dirty feet and bloody heads and trickles downward downward down down- downward ward over the tho poultry With a packed dry-packed chicken the animal animal ani ant mal mat heat is removed by hanging the bird in an artificially cooled room maintained at nearly freezing temperature temper temper- The chicken Is then packed Into a box containing 12 birds and sen sento sento sento to market The ho box hox Is hauled in re cars and Is kept b by goo retailers In good ice boxes until sold The bird is never wet has no chance to absorb water or become washed out A bird should never be wet until It gets a final quick rinsing off oft in the housewife's kitchen |
