The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1913-04-10


! Dresssd Poultry 10 Best After Nins
I Months In Cold Storsos-Fowl Shoule
q. Starved Twenty Hours Be-
fore Being Killed.
lis the freshness of an egg question
Of psychology?
IN a chicken better food when 1t has
been kept year or two after being
killed and dressed than when 1t La
freshly killed?
Both these questions were answered
absolutely in the affirmative by experts
testifying recently before the joint
committee of the council aud the house
of delegates that is investigating the
cost of living at st Louis.
Royal H. Swltzler, st. Louis food
expert, put under oath, as were all wit
nesses. told that the question OF the
FRESHNESS of an egg was largely a
matter OF psychology and that the
greatest expert living could not tell
the difference between an egg In cold
storage nine months and one Of the
kind commonly denominated fresh
which reach the retail market almost
directly from the farmer.
Fresh Chicken Dangerous.
Miss n. K. Pennington, chief Of the
food research laboratory OF the Unit
ed States department of agriculture at
Philadelphia, testified that a chicken
which had been killed the day before
was dangerous to eat. She said she
would absolutely refuse to eat fresh
ly killed bird The Ideal chicken, she
said. was one that had been held In
storage nine months or year. When
one had been kept two years In stor-
age she said, II began to lose its flavor.
Miss Pennington was on the witness
stand nearly two hours. She had stop
ped in st. Louis to address conven-
ton OF shippers and was persuaded
to appear before the cost Of living In
yestigators.
zone Of the chief elements in the
high cost Of living problem began
Miss Pennington. rs the frightfuI
amount OF waste. The money value
OF eggs In the United States each year
Is $500.000.000. OF this 10 per cent, or
&0000,000. Is dead loss because of
waste In marketing the eggs. Some
where between the hen and the con-
yasner' soo.oo0-O0o worth OF, eggs have
zone to nothing
"The poultry products Of the coun-
Try amount each year to $250OOO, OO0
ind again there Is q 10 per cent loss.
,r one amounting to S25.O00.0O0."
Not Enough Cold Storage.
80" interrupted Delegate Scully,
we save 90 per cent in spite Of cold
torage?"
'ln spite OF 1t it? Why, my dear sir.
We haven't nearly enough Of 1t. The
waste commences, and by far the
reater part Of 1t develops on the
arm" retorted Miss Pennington.
THE farmer doesn't gather his eggs
uickly enough. He let's them prosper
q the incubator Of the summer sun.
hen they go to the storekeeper, where
hey are held. for time In a warm
Dom. Afterward a great quantity of
ur eggs Is shipped In nonrefrigerated
OK cars that are excellent incubators.
q the course of three or four weeks
MS alleged fresh egg reaches the city
larket.
1T Is the good cold storage eggs and
oultry that Missouri and adjoining
ntes send out to east and west coasts.
he poor fresh product you keep at
pine. And maybe one reason there is
much complaint here is because you |
It 80 little of the cold storage food.
ITO get fresh egg or good chick
/ out of cold storage 1t must have
zen a fresh egg or good chicken
hen 1t went into storage.
How to Kill Chickens.
ITO begin with, there are few who
II their chickens In the right way.
ere Is the proper way to commence.
arve the chicken for twenty-four
,urs. so that the intestines will have
Elapsed and 1t will be easy to get the
God. out. Don't cut on the chickens
,ad. but stun 1t, and sever the jugu-
r vein-
III you cut on the chickens head
" cut other arteries and veins be-
les the jugular one. and the chicken
mot bleed properly. Pick the feath-
8 dry. Keep the chicken In a tenn
nature of 80 degrees for ten days
d ship It to market In a refrigerated
r."
How, long" asked DR.. Randall, "can
chicken be kept in cold storage and
goodT
Well. nine months or year L.
cd period" answered Miss Penning-
a. but should say that chicken
o year, old In storage would begin