﻿6 BULLETIN 17, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



the progress of flesh changes, and also the amount of free acid 1 in the 

 fat, since the rise in acidity is an indication of the aging of the whole 

 carcass. The results of the chemical analyses and the condition on 

 arrival at destination of 78 such experiments which are comparable 

 in their methods of procedure are shown in Table 1. 



Table 1. — The transportation of dry-packed dressed poultry in refrigerator cars. 









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1 Pennington and Hepburn. The determination of the acid value of crude fat and its application in the 

 detection of aged foods. J. Amer. Chem. Soc, 1910, 32 (4): 568. 



2 Hard frozen. 



