, 1908-08-04


titudes OF sufferers OF digestive dis
orders are victims of toxicosls, or pto-
maine poison. Stomach disturbance
after eating. collie. nausea, headache,
chlorea morbus, and most of the at
lacks Of diarrheoa and dysenteYy are
among thu conditions traceable to this
cause"
Some Fatal Cases.
In certain experiences OF the writer
the toxiccsis was Of such poisonous
quality a 10 dangerously Iaralyze the
nerve governing the action of the d.
gestive tract. and in each fatal case
death was preceded by heart paralys
sis"
Several examples are given Of fatal
poisoning from food ptomaine to
prove the seriousness Of the present
food situation. This l have not time
to take up here.
nz Sought and Sold by Weight.
Poultry II usually brought and sold
by weight, and in Wyoming commands
a price of about 20 cents a pound. 1t
Is = uellsknown fact that poultry
raisers As q rule preceie the slaughter
Of their marketable stock by liberal
feeding. generally OF cereals, which
fact accounts for the full crops gem
eral'y found in the birds on the market
The manifest object of this feeding Is
to give a plump appearance and espe-
cially to increase weight. You will all
agree with me that 20 cents a pound is
q pretty good price to pay for corn or
| other grain which may be fed poul-
try, especially since this must neces-
sarily be wasted
Shipping Tho Poultry.
1t is the practice after slaughter OF
poultry to remove the feathers from
the carcass and ship directly to the
wholesalers without further dressing,
The head and feet, as we'll as the full
crop of partially digested grain and
the intestinal tract of filthy and poi
sonous matter, all combine to maxi
valuable weight, and are. therefore,
kept intact Most of the wholesalers
of meat products are also proprietors
of cold storage plants, and their stocks
are the sources of supply of the great
majority of retailers. There Is no ques
ton but that the domestic fowls are
most u~nc,sanly about feeding. They
will take into their digestive tract
anything ind everything In all stages
of decomposition.
DR.. Cavana Quoted.
Quoted from an address by DR.. M
Cavana: 'Imagine the probabilities
connected with the Thanksgiving tur
key and the spring chicken which il
quoted upon the menu of our high
class hotels and restaurants every day
OF the year. their previous storing In
a cold but unfrozen state for months
or even,years; their craws stuffed with
partially dixested food In a state Of
continuous fermentation during thin
long period; their lung tissue.
and other delicate internal struc
lures broken down by partial o.
complete decomposition; their diges
tive tracts filed with partially digest
ed matter in . state of solubility; theil
extensive anatomical arrangement fol
absorption through the numerous yes
sells and drcts. which extend from the
intestinal lining to various portions Of
the body Of the fowl, rendering ths
absorption of the Lnclean and poison
Gus Intestinal tract probably rathel
than possible, and the final crowninf
act OF The wholesaler, that Of saturat
ing the partially mummiied specimen
IN fresh water before marketing, thur
rendering the distribution of the pto
maines throughout the unclean con
glomeration as thorough as could b.
accomplished by the most studiel
means.