16 COMPARATIVE KATE OF DECOMPOSITION IN MARKET POULTRY. 



SHIPMENT NO. 1029. 



Experiment 1029 represents the changes taking place in a shipment 

 under the conditions obtaining in the chill room, the freezer in the 

 packing house, the usual railroad haul, the wholesaler's chill room, 

 which the birds left on the fourteenth day after killing, and at the 

 shop of the retailer after the lapse of two days more. At this time 

 the stock was all in fair condition, no marked differences showing 

 between the various forms of dressing, except in the case of the full- 

 drawn birds, which were lowered in grade. Then came an undue 



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FIG. 6. Changes in a single shipment (No. 1029), showing data for acidity and ammoniacal nitrogen. 



delay, not the ordinary procedure, and the last examination, made 

 on the twenty-third day of marketing, showed all the birds to be in 

 bad order; but the eviscerated specimens were the worst. As stated, 

 the latter part of this record is not in accordance with the usual 

 course of events, but is a happening such as may be expected and 

 does occur when the market drags or warm weather comes suddenly. 

 The following details of market inspection are of interest in this 

 connection, as representative of the results obtained under such 

 conditions : 



In the packing house. There was no difference visible, when the birds were compared, 

 between the various kinds of dressing. All were in fine condition. 



