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Show Chicken Inspection In a certain district of Columbia, South America, every chicken killed must be presented to government authorities for inspection. This is not a health measure, such as governs the sanitary slaughter of food animals in this country, but is a requirement to prevent the chicken chick-en owner from coming into unauthorized un-authorized possession of any stray emeralds which may happen to be found in the bird's gizzard. For in this section is located the only emerald producing territory in the southern continent, and fowls often pick up the precious stones in preference to ordinary gravel. An American company is conducing conduc-ing emerald mining operations in Columbia, using the primitive methods meth-ods employed by the early Spaniards, Span-iards, because the region is so inaccessible in-accessible as to make the transportation transpor-tation of modem equipment too costly. However, recovery of emeralds by the chicken method is only a minor phase of the enterprise. |