Show HOW TO KILL CHICKEN I 1 illustrations LUST RATIONS SHOW MANNER OF GRASPING FOWL Thirty Thir Oer C cent ent or of poultry on new york market Is I 1 incompletely died bled I 1 resulting in loss loo of 2 to 6 5 f cents cent per pep bouner pound prepared by the united states ado department aart of agriculture grasp the chicken when illing the bony part of the skull skill do no not tot idi uio the finger touch tho the neck make a lt aj j lynall out cut with a sharp pointed unico OR on the right 0 0 tho the roof of tho mauth pat whore tho the of ohp auli PA arr dry spiting by til thrusting the t ahe e groove rna nils a the in rold ting line of tho the roof of tha ho mauth un til ll ff touches the skull madway be joon tha th eyes cv apa ys a hach Is n not ot nora more than two i 0 1191 1 S fourth inch wide with a thin flat handle a sharp point and a straight cutting edgo 11 V tho the above ini on tho the proper methods 0 t killing poultry wore issued by tho the department of agriculture at lafeat 80 per cent of all the poultry coming into to new york market la is incompletely bled much ot of it la Is to be badly mod bled that it results la in a 4 loss 1088 of from 2 to 6 cents cent a pound as compared with tho the corresponding poultry which la Is wen well bled and add ln in external V good order con head and neck finues the depart showing position ment aside from of veins the bad appear anco ance of bled chickens their keeping properties are very in ferfer tho the flesh loses its firmness sooner ita ifa flavor la Is not so BO good the f I 1 r r 11 tocora awo aar oo 00 1 4 A lower jaw of fowl removed A odor of stale flesh and finally of putrefaction tre faction comes sooner and la in every way the product Is more perishable A very large proportion of the unsightly poultry in our markets aside from the rubbing and tearing of tho the skins la in caused by an incomplete removal of the blood this la is evidenced by red dots which frequently occur where the feathers haye have been removed especially over the thighs and wings or by the emall email velna veins which are seen been over the breast and in the angles of the wings or larger veins which mar tho the appearance of the neck two sketches of a chickens head are here shown from which the lower law jaw has been removed the lower jaw of tho the chicken la Is much longer than tho the beak it runs back to a point just juet below the ear car where the hinged joint can be felt the skin akin which makes the corner comer of the mouth and limits the length of the beak ends la in indicated in the anatomical drawing 41 1 1 4 17 44 W I 1 4 J ak 71 jbf showing angle of jaw 13 marked A the sun slin and lower jaw have bave been cut away in order that tho the position of the veins which lie tar far back of the roof of the mouth and just below its surface may be seen the groove which occurs in the root roof ot of tho the chickens mouth ta Is a guide tc the position of the blood vessel which it is desirable to cut this point belly behind and to the loft left of the end of tho the groove when the tha chicken la Is held hoad head down and with the lower side of the head uppermost tho the direction and position of the cut which to la to sever the veins la Is shown in figure 2 to bo be on the tha left side of the chic chickens kons hoad head when in tho the position just do dax I 1 it will bo be observed that just in front of the line which indicates the at which heso volna veins are to bo be cut they inta two small email branches labo the course of which Is not further s hown this 1 to because they bey very bo PMS mail holes in tho the alil aiji ll 11 D j local n ot of cucit in mouths of badly chickens lower jaw removed bom and go into the inside of bf the skull and into tho the deep tissue whore where they are quite safe bate from the killers kl llora knife it if these theeo largo large veins aro are to bo be severed the cut must bo be made far enough back to reach them before they penetrate the bones bonas of the skull on the other hand it if the cut la Is made too far back and over the edge of the skull as aa la Is shown in connection with the tha illustration much of ahn blood will vill settle in the booso tissue or of tho the 0 neck instead of running out of the mouth thereby clogging the vessels and preventing complete bleeding as aa well as making unsightly dla dis colored in the neck near the head delow below la is shown tho the position of a chicken ready for killing and held by the feet in a U shaped shackle no taco that the thumb of 0 the killer to la pressed firmly down on the head just below and bellind behind the ear in the space to which attention was called when discussing the bones pt of the skull here too la Is the hinge of tho the jaw pressure of the thumb on ono one side of this portion of the skull and on the other side eldo at the same place with the forefinger or with the forefinger and second finger will result in opening ile lt it open the operator maces TOO nw cut to bleed held in such fashion there Is nothing to obstruct the blood vessels thereby preventing tho the blood from escaping oven even though these vessels be cut the position of the knife in the mouth which Is shown by the dotted line needs no further explanation the knife itself however la Is very different fron that ordinarily used in tho the bleeding of chickens the knife la in common use Is ie much too largo large both too long and too broad for the most successful work ineffectual cutting cuttin gp due to a lack of knowledge of the structure of tho the chickens neck and head bead the use of force rather than skill on the tha part of the operator and a knife ill adapted to tho tha work which it has to do Is illustrated by tho the out cut above which shows correct grasp of head at angle of jaw and position of small knife when cutting vein some of the most colimon common types ot of cuts in badly bled chickens A study of these illustrations indicates very plainly why these chickens are badly bled tho the lower jaws from these heads beads were removed so BO that the position ot of the cuts could be noted head A has had bad two cuts one has baa run parallel with the connection between the two veins and very close to it but has baa not cut it and another has baa run from tho the angle of the mouth too close to the poll point where the blood vessel on the left side of the head breaks into the two smaller vessels and penetrates the bones of tho the skull tho the only vessels which were cut lu in this chicken were tho the small superficial veins supplying the root roof of the mouth and from which the bleeding amounted to almost nothing head D shows chows a cu cut t in the right direction but it did not go quite far enough back to reach the veins at their junction head A in the cut shows the cross cut which is ie advocated by so many killers in this case it was made too far front both of tho the large veins escaped and only the small vessels of tho the root roof of the mouth were disturbed B is 0 good illustration of indiscriminate cutting by a badly directed knife which in all probability was far too large since the upper cut extends till all tho the way across the root roof of the tha chickens mouth and almost as far front as tho the beak another cut which partly follows the groove la in the roof of tho the mouth would indicate that thai the killer had bad tried to make a cross cut |