XXVIII 

 DRAWING AND DISMEMBERING POULTRY 



Governmenrt Investigation of Shipping Losses Loss Due 

 to Methods of Killing and Handling Local Market- 

 ing Partial Dissection Dismembering a Fowl for 

 Table Use A Quicker Method Learning to Carve 

 Part Dissection of Birds that Die Results of 

 Overstimulation. 



IT is of the greatest value to the Beginner to know where 

 he can get brief, conservative, reliable, and sharply prac- 

 tical informative booklets on special topics. Such are the 

 bulletins of the United States Agricultural Department. 

 As a foundation for the wider knowledge and the dis- 

 cussion which brings out ideas, " secrets," etc., from 

 many hundreds of people, through books and periodicals, 

 there is nothing else so safe as these Government Bulle- 

 tins, or primers. 



In the matter of preparing poultry for market, there 

 is an especially valuable lot of government literature. 

 The almost incredible losses and wastes, occurring in con- 

 nection with moving the enormous quantities of poultry 

 meat produced from the growers to the consumers, 

 roused the authorities to keen investigation into causes. 

 Having found, through first-hand research work, the 

 causes, it prepared bulletins, lectures, and lantern-slides 

 as mediums to pass this highly valuable information on to 

 the producers and shippers, who stood in such crying need 

 of it. One would not for a minute intimate that all the 

 blame falls on the producers. But a knowledge of the 



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