The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-19
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various matters of intimate appeal to all OF US
Some of these discussions never get beyond th
Record, but here is a bit OF on
which is going to have Ardmorelte publlcity
Senator McKellar of Tennessee was speaking
in advocacy of his bill to have the governmen
take control of the cold-storage business. II
had said certain things regarding eggs whlc
all of you ought to read before you eat anothe
cold-storage egg. then he continued thus:
come next to the question of poultry.
There are two reasons why this bill ought
to pass in respect to poultry. In the first
place poultry is not properly prepared
for cold storage now. 1t is not properly
killed, it is not properly picked, it is not
properly handled.
| want to explain the process that is in
vogue now. The head is not taken Off of
poultry now, but the fowl is simply killed
by being cut in the neck. 1t is not bled.
1t is not drawn. The insides are not taken
out when it is put in cold storage. The
feathers are not taken off They are not
cooled as nature would cool them and ac-
cording to scientific processes, but they
are killed by inserting a knife in their
neck and when that method is used they
are not bled properly, and they are lmme-
diately thrown into a cooling room, ana
then deposited in large vaults Just as they
are. When they are taken out of cold stor-
age to be placed on the market this thing
occurs: They are taken out and dumped
into hot water and scalded, and the feath-
ers taken off in that way and the skin torn
according to expert witnesses on that sub
iect. The skin is torn and the hot water
has the effect of swelling the fowl and
making it look like fresh fowl. In addi-
ton to that the head is left on it, and the
fowl deteriorates very rapidly after hav-
ing been treated in that way.
Even the retail men put these fowls in
hot or warm water to make them swell out
and look like fresh fowls and, incidentally,
to gather greater weight.
You who love poultry, do you not think
we had better regulate these processes?
At all events, should we not see that the
people are not imposed upon-that they
actually get what they buy and pay for?
AS matter of fact, DR.. Pennington,
who is an expert on that subject, says that
the chicken should be properly bled; that
it should be dry-picked; that it should be
dry-cooed; that it should not be put into
hot water at all and that the skin should
not be made to puff out as it will by the
application OF water. One OF IHe ellectS
of the practice is, as [ said before, that it
makes the fowl look like fresh fowl tenn
porarily until it can be sold and the other
is that it adds weight. For that reason
fowl ought not to be kept long, and there
ought to be regulations as to its being
placed in storage.
Senators are familiar with the facts and
figures as to fowls placed in cold storage.
In many instances they are kept there in
definitely. We are given impure food, and
the price of fowls is absolutely controlled
by the organizations to which | have re-
fewed.
The organizations to which Senator Nickel
ar referred are the packer people who con
ro virtually all the cod-storage business OF
his country. After having read what Senator
LcKellar, q long time student and expert as
O cold storage. says about the cod-storage
hicken, what are you going to do about it?
Ne don't mean what are you going to do about
he chicken, but about the packers.