XXVIII 



DRAWING AND DISMEMBERING POULTRY 



Government 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 Beginnerto know where 

 he can get brief, conservative, rehable, 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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