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PROPER WAY TO DRY-PICK TURKEYS. 
This deals with the method I use in 
handling dry-picked and dry-packed turkeys 
for the express shipments to the eastern 
city markets. I have handled as many tur¬ 
keys as any one man of my age, and I have 
a record of never losing one pound of dressed 
poultry by spoiling in transit. Good tur¬ 
keys properly dressed always sell them¬ 
selves; badly butchered turkeys are hard 
to sell at any price. I pen the turkeys for 
12 hours so that their crops will be empty. 
If they are killed with full crops they 
quickly sour and turn black, but I do not 
starve the turkeys so that they will lose 
weight or have a gaunt look. To kill, I 
hang the turkeys in a string attached to 
the ceiling so that the head comes within 
about four feet of the floor. I then lock 
the wings so that you can have better con¬ 
trol over the turkey in sticking and pick¬ 
ing. To lock the wings I bring one over 
the other and catch the tip of the upper 
wing under that of the lower. I always 
aim to bleed the turkey well, so that they 
will show up bright and yellow and kbep 
long. To stick the turkeys I use a long, 
keen, sharp-pointed knife. I open the bird’s 
mouth and auickly plunge the knife down 
its throat, drawing it twice toward the 
bill, so that I sever the jugular vein on 
each side of the throat. I then quickly 
plunge the knife up through the roof of the 
mouth into the brain and then give the 
knife a slight twist. In making the stick 
I aim to touch the turkey’s bx - ain with the 
point of the knife, so as to paralyze the 
turkey and loosen the feathers. If you cut 
too much of the brain away it will tighten 
the feathers and you cannot pick without 
tearing. I had stuck ten thousand turkeys 
before I learned the art of sticking, and 
often in the holiday rushes when the pick¬ 
ing gang is getting worn out and their fin¬ 
gers are sore they have begged me to 
do the sticking, saying when I stuck 
them they could blow the feathers off. As 
soon as the turkey is stuck I begin pull¬ 
ing the feathers off, and the quicker 
the better. I never allow the pickers 
to remove the turkey from the string 
until it is clean, and I never allow 
them to scrape the pin feathers out with 
a knife. As soon as the turkey is picked 
I nlunge it into a barrel of cold water for 
about an hour: I then take it out of the 
water and catch it bv the feet and hold it 
so that its head reaches nearly to the 
ground. I then give it a quick jerk so that 
the blood that has accumulated in its throat 
will be ierked out. I then place the string 
around its feet and hang it up to dry and 
cool. It is then ready to pack for ship¬ 
ment. as soon as it is thoroughly dry and 
all the animal heat has left its body. 
Virginia. G. s. 
MILK SUPPLY OF CLEVELAND, OHIO. 
Cleveland has recently gained quite a pub¬ 
lic recognition from the fact announced by 
the health officials that its milk supply as 
to quality, purity, freedom from bacteria and 
amount consumed per capita, is in advance 
of any other city in the Union, even out¬ 
classing the famed milk of Rochester, N. Y. 
Cleveland is unique in this. Its dairy ter¬ 
ritory covers the entire northern part of the 
State, and the dairy farms actually come 
up to the very city limits. It is unapproached 
in another particular, that of transporta¬ 
tion, and 50 miles reaches to the far limits 
of its milk supply, practically being a short 
haul of two hours at best, to reach the city 
milk depots. If one will imagine a half 
wheel with 16 spokes, set connected with 
the hub, and that hub representing the 
city of Cleveland, on the south shore of 
Lake Erie, each one of these spokes radiat¬ 
ing and each representing either a steam, or 
trolley road, every one of them bringing 
milk and cream into the city from the farms, 
never far away from a shipping station, one 
can see why the city is very highly fav¬ 
ored in its locality of milk supply. The 
farmers supplying this 9,000 cans of milk 
each morning, and something like 700 cans 
of cream, and their fathers before them 
have been dairymen, and dairying is their 
main and chief vocation. They are not ad¬ 
venturers in the supplying of milk either to 
factories, creameries or the city, which is 
a great point in itself. The manner of sale 
of milk at the farms is varied. Scattered 
all over the this dairy territory are the 
once cheese factories and creameries, aban¬ 
doned because of the changed conditions of 
milk selling to the city at higher prices 
than cheese makers can pay. 
In the city milk selling is fast drifting 
into combined and associated companies, 
who buy in great quantities, wholesale and 
retail both, and have milk depots in addi- 
ion. These companies are fast buying up 
the abandoned, and going-to-be, factories, 
and establishing in them milk-buying plants. 
They take all milk offered, Winter or Sum¬ 
mer, and overplus milk is made into butter, 
cheese and cottage cheese. Fine cream for 
the ice cream makers is a specialty. Some 
of these concerns do yet more. They lease 
country factories for the five Winter 
months, pay up to the market limit for 
milk, and in the S-pring the factory again 
takes up the usual making of Summer 
cheese. The Walker-Gordon Co. is noted 
for this plan, and so far as we hear gives 
the best of satisfaction. The Belle Vernon 
Co. is another firm that has not only a line 
of all-tbe-year stations, but extras in the 
Winter. There are some six or more of 
these firms in greater or smaller degree. 
Scattered over the city are a great number 
of “milk dippers’’ who buy in small 
amounts from the farmers direct, and retail 
from their own wagons. There are more 
than 800 of these, and in reliability they 
rank from the best down to the fly-by- 
night ; so that when there is an oversupply 
of milk, the farmers keep close tab on their 
dealer, that he does not “do” them too se¬ 
verely. 
Over this all is the watchful eye of the 
Board of Health, who are trying to keep 
the quality of the milk up to the standard, 
and improve it. All milk now, save whole¬ 
saling, has to be delivered to the consumer 
in bottles. Not only does the Board inspect 
in the city, but has its official inspectors 
in the 'Country, Who visit each farm, 
note conditions, and while they have no 
power to enforce sanitation, their report 
to the health board amounts to the same 
thing, and if not favorable, notice is sent 
and this particular milk is refused admit¬ 
tance into the city. Where the milk is de¬ 
livered to a shipping station, notice is 
given to the shippers to refuse this milk, 
and if not complied with the whole ship¬ 
ping plant milk is shut out. The complaint 
now is that the milk retailed is not as good 
as that sent in from the country, a thing 
that the officials are after with a view of 
locating and correcting. Once a year the 
United States Government has a public 
meeting in the city to which all farmers are 
asked to send an average sample of the 
milk of their dairies. It is put to all sorts 
of tests for purity, bacteria, and keeping 
qualities, and prize medals given out to the 
winners. Last year. Assistant I^ane of the 
Department at Washington, announced the 
samples shown to be the finest, highest 
quality and freest from bacteria of any ex¬ 
hibit ever made in America. Of course there 
are some over-officious officials who are try¬ 
ing to ring in all sorts of dire scares about 
diseased dairies, and how the city is rav¬ 
aged by infectious diseases, due to infected 
milk, until one would think the country must 
be one general hospital located for the most 
part in the cow stables, but luckily the city 
consumer still pins faith to the general 
sanitation practiced by the farmer, and the 
trade so far has been little if any affected, 
and is actually increasing to the extent 
that Cleveland now consumes the greatest 
amount of milk per capita of any of our 
cities. Commercially the milk trade of the 
city is one of Its greatest features, and one 
bound by the rapid growth of the city alone, 
to be of far greater proportions. The popu¬ 
lation of the city increases at the rate of 
40,000 per year, a new demand for 10,000 
quarts of milk daily each year, and no man 
can apprehend any ending, so it seems to be 
an abiding industry, each year asking for a 
better milk, each year paying a better 
price, an industry whose magnitude is a 
wonder. john gould. 
Ohio. 
Don’t 
Be Like 
The Sailor 
who clung to the anchor as he 
threw it overboard, and of course 
went to the bottom—the result, a 
dead one. 
You may have done practi¬ 
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