Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-03-31 | Page 8 | Poultry Law Put in Effect

POULTRY LAW PUT IN EFFECT Sale of Birds With Food in Crop Is Forbidden Consumers Con-sumers Suffer in Health and Purae. Now York, March 31. An order forbidding for-bidding the sale of poultry with food fn the crop at the timo of sale, will be put into effect on Monday, In New York City. The order was Issued by John J. Dillon, state commlssiiner of foods and markets, who says that sov-eral sov-eral million consumers suffered in health and purse from the widespread practice of stuffing the crops of birds to increase tho weight. -"New Yorkers are now paying $7,-000,000 $7,-000,000 a year for a mixture of sand, gravel, meal paste and water, he said.