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POULTRY PRODUCTION 



sota, and Tennessee are those in which the poultry-packing 

 business has shown the greatest development. While it is 

 carried on to a greater or less extent in all the states, most 

 of the establishments dressing poultry or shipping eggs are 

 small, without adequate equipment and employing only the 

 crudest methods. 



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Showing routes by which poultry products reach the consumer from the 



producer. 



The present tendency is toward centralized plants having 

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

 which mechanical refrigeration is the most fundamental 

 item. 



