tf2 PROFITS IN POULTRY. 



brief and concise, give the results of an extensive expe- 

 rience and present all the essential points in dressing 

 and shipping for that market. They say: " To insure 

 highest market prices for poultry, they must be well 

 fattened; crops empty when killed; nicely and well 

 picked and skin not broken or torn; thoroughly cooled, 

 but not frozen. Pack in boxes with a layer of clean 

 straw (rye-straw the best) between the layers of poultry, 

 in the same posture in which they roost. Mark each 

 box, specifying what it contains. Send invoice by 

 mail. Ship to reach us about the middle of the week 

 should never reach us so late in the week as on Satur- 

 day. 



" There is the greatest demand for fine and fat turkeys 

 for Thanksgiving; for prime and nice geese for Christ- 

 mas; for extra large and nice turkeys for New-Year's- 

 day. On all these occasions shipments should reach us 

 two to five days in advance. If you cannot find any 

 profit in sending poultry of prime quality and well pre- 

 pared, you need not look for any in that of ordinary or 

 poor qualities." 



An ordinance adopted by the Board of Aldermen of 

 New York City, and approved by the Mayor, is as fol- 

 lows: 



" SECTION 1. That no turkeys or chickens be offered 

 for sale in the city unless the crops of such turkeys and 

 chickens are free from food or other substance and 

 shrunken close to their bodies. That all fowls exposed 

 for sale in violation of this ordinance shall be seized and 

 condemned; such of them as shall be tainted shall, upon 

 examination, be destroyed, and the rest which are fit 

 for food shall be used in the public institutions in the 

 city. 



" SECTION 2. Every person exposing for sale any 

 chicken or turkey in contravention of this ordinance 



