48 PRELIMINARY COLD STORAGE STUDIES. 



Undrawn. Muscles dry and hard with .skin tightly drawn and adherent; color dead 

 and dark; odor stale; eyes sunken; interior tissues pale, hard, and tough, with 

 no resilience, bad fecal odor; lungs mottled white; liver flabby; gall bladder 

 half empty; gizzard smaller than normal; intestines soft, mushy, with no blood 

 in the blood vessels and through omentum; blood vessels in walls have disap- 

 peared. 



F. C. C. 



Fresh. Rather small chicken, 1 pounds; color and odor normal; eye full and round; 



interior color and odor normal; liver brown-red. 

 Drawn. Skin and muscles rather bruised; skin dry; not plump; odor good; interior 



color pale, but more normal than undrawn, and odor good, though not strictly 



fresh. 

 Undrawn. Skin dry and bruised; shape lost owing to packing; eye has disappeared; 



odor good; interior color very pale; meat has lost its characteristic appearance; 



hemoglobin reduced. 



