THE POULTRY AND EGG INDUSTRY IN EUROPE 
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Turkeys from the Danube Valley are killed only in the fall, when 
the weather is suitable for cooling them without artificial refrig- 
eration. They are dressed by bleeding from the throat, are dry- 
picked and packed in boxes for shipment to a large consuming 
market, like Berlin, Hamburg, Paris, London, Liverpool, or Man- 
chester. 
GOVERNMENT INTEREST IN RAISING POULTRY 
Most of the ministries of agriculture in Europe haYe at least 
one poultryman and often a staff ; but poultry investigations, instruc- 
tion, and demonstrations as understood in the United States do not 
exist in Europe. The most extensive investigations and instructions 
now being carried on are doubtless in England, where through the 
Fig. 5. — A Danish Government poultry experiment station near Copenhagen 
efforts of the National Poultry Organization Society and the 
Poultryman to the Ministry of Agriculture, a system of district or 
county poultry advisers has been developed and a national poultry 
institute has been established in connection with the Harper-Adams 
College of Agriculture. Besides their activities, scientific research 
is carried on at Cambridge University along breeding lines. 
Denmark has an able educator as poultry councilor. In collabora- 
tion with the cooperative poultry organizations and the ministry 
of agriculture he has developed a system of breeding centers con- 
sisting, in brief, of a flock of standard-bred poultry which is care- 
fully and continuously trap nested. (See figs. 5 and 6.) The 
eggs are sold to poultry producers at fair prices considering the 
quality. This project has increased egg production and the interest 
in the raising of poulhy to the extent that Denmark's exports of 
native-produced eggs have almost doubled within the last five years. 
