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Show DISPUTING SCIENCE. Those practical persons who have rushed into the lists with' Secretary Sec-retary of Agriculture James Wilson, and have declared that the gen-tleman gen-tleman from Tama, la., did not know what he was talking about when he said in the recent report that chickens ought to be kept without food for twenty-four hours before they were killed, should pause before obtruding their opinions upon the public. Secretary Wilson had as a basis for his declaration the report of a very clever young lady, who is known in the department as Dr. Pennington. Dr. Pennington is an expert and a scientist, and in the worrh of the sere-tary sere-tary himself, "is a mighty nice girl." She has been investigating this chicken question for a year or two, and last spring she went before be-fore the cold storage warehousemen and told them a lot th$y never knew before about their own business. They took it nobly, too, and voted their thanks to boot. What Dr. Pennington knows about preparing pre-paring poultry for market and the effects of cold stdrage on it, the relative merits of dry picked poultry and poultry v.'hich has been scalded, and other things pertaining to tho subject, would fill a book. Accordingly, it is recommended again, that non-professional persons should go slow in contradicting the deductions and findings of Dr. Pennington, who ''has the dope," as the sporting editor says, to back up all she says. |