22 COMPARATIVE RATE OF DECOMPOSITION IN MARKET POULTRY. 



have once gained a firm foothold; and also that the rise in ammoniacal nitrogen which, 

 we have been taught, is commonly the outcome of bacterial activity, does not appear 

 until some time after it has been shown that bacteria are already numerous. Such 

 observations furnish a fertile field for further research to determine the exact depend- 

 ence of one finding on the other, as well as the kind of organisms present, and the chief 

 lines along which decomposition progresses. 



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