Show wrong time to water unscrupulous poultry dealers have been known to feed chickens sand and gravel grabel to increase their weight but heres a new one an agent of the federal food and drug 7 administration visited a wholesale le poultry house and found that dressed chickens were vere being given hypodermic injections of water A hose terminating mina ting in a follow needle was used gocr bird received several ounces of water which was gradually absorbed this increased the weight and made the scrawny bird look plumper though federal agents could not interfere since the chickens were not shipped interstate state officials later seized the profit making hose and fined the dealer |