32 PROFITS IN POULTRY. 
brief and concise, give the results of an extensive expe- 
rience and present all the essential points in dressing 
and shipping for that market. “They say: ‘‘ To insure 
highest market prices for poultry, they must be well 
fattened; crops empty when killed; nicely and well 
picked and skin not broken or torn; thoroughly cooled, 
but not frozen. Pack in boxes with a layer of clean 
straw (rye-straw the best) between the layers of poultry, 
in the same posture in which they roost. Mark each 
box, specifying what it contains. Send invoice by 
mail. Ship to reach us about the middle of the week 
—should never reach us so late in the week as on Satur- 
day. 
“There is the greatest demand for fine and fat turkeys 
for Thanksgiving; for prime and nice geese for Christ- 
mas; for extra large and nice turkeys for New-Year’s- 
day. On all these occasions shipments should reach us 
two to five days in advance. If you cannot find any 
profit in sending poultry of prime quality and well pre- 
pared, you need not look for any in that of ordinary or 
poor qualities.” 
An ordinance adopted by the Board of Aldermen of 
New York City, and approved by the Mayor, is as fol- 
lows: 
“‘Sxctron 1. That no turkeys or chickens be offered 
for sale in the city unless the crops of such turkeys and 
chickens are free from food or other substance and 
shrunken close to their bodies. That all fowls exposed 
for sale in violation of this ordinance shall be seized and 
condemned; such of them as shall be tainted shall, upon 
examination, be destroyed, and the rest which are fit 
for food shall be used in the public institutions in the 
city. 
“‘SEcTIon 2. Every person exposing for sale any 
chicken or turkey in contravention of this ordinance 
