POULTRY PRODUCTION AND POULTRY INDUSTRY 37 



small, without adequate equipment and employing only the 

 crudest methods. 



The present tendency is toward centralized plants ]ia\ing 

 all the facilities of a first-class packing establishment, of 

 which mechanical refrigeration is the most fundamental 

 item. 



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Showing routes by which poultry products reach the coiiauiiicr fronj the 



producer 



Aside from dressing and preserving poultry, eliminating 

 the bad eggs (which, imder the present general system of 

 buying eggs from producers witliout regard to (juality, are 

 bound to find their way into the channels of trade), and 

 preserving the good ones, the packer has been forced by the 



