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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13.
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Housewives Should Buy Chickens Undrawn
Government Tests Show That Undrawn Chickens Keep
Much Better Than Those That Have Been
Fully Dressed
Washington, D. . C.—The poultry
handling specialists of the United States
Department of Agriculture are urging
housewives to buy their chickens un
drawn and with theft - heads and feet
Irreparable Loss
Right now you have in your home
jewelry, trinkets, heirlooms and valu
able documents, the loss which no
amount of fire or burglar insurance
would compensate for. You value them
far above their actual intrinsic worth—
yet rather than pay a few dollars a year
for a Box in our Safety Vault you daily
and hourly subject them to unknown
dangers.
Do not risk them any longer. Come
in TODAY and let us designate you a
box.
The Bell Always On Guard
THERE is never a moment, day or night, when your Bell
* Telephone is not a protection.
In the busy hours of the day and the silent watches of the
night, the switchboard operator is always ready to answer a
call.
The telephone is as much a part of the protective system of
each community as the police and fire departments.
There’s always a feeling of security in the knowledge that
close at hand is the means of calling aid quickly when you
most need it.
More than 70,000 cities and towns are protected day and
night by the Bell Telephone system. 7,500,000 Bell tele
phones are on guard. In thousands of rural communities it is
the chief reliance in emergencies and times of danger.
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still on. An undrawn chicken, they
say. shows its lack of freshness or its
unfitness for food much more clearly
than does a fully dressed bird, in the
dressing of which certain significant
SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE
AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY
signs can easily be removed by the
crafty poultry dresser.
Moreover, by actual government tests
as reported in Circular No. 70 of the Bu
reau of Chemistry, fully drawn poultry
with head and feet removed, decom
poses the most rapidly, while undrawn
poultry keeps much better than does
poultry either wholly or partly drawn.
This is because once a chicken is open
ed for cleaning, the delicate tissues in
it are open to the bacteria of the air,
which multiply very rapidly and soon
destroy the flavor of the chicken, even
if they do not bring about actual putre.
faction. The undressed chicken is far
less likely to be contaminated in this
way, as the outer skin is a protection
against the inroads of such bacteria.
When the feet of chickens are re
moved, the housewife loses one of the
easiest methods of determining whether
the bird is young or old. Young chickens
have smooth, clean feet and shanks. Old
birds have scaly, rough legs and buttons
or spurs. The head of a dead chicken
gives very clear indications of staleness.
Laying*
Loafing?
hens and
lets lay now and keep *§2®
them laying all winter
by giving them WHI&.
Pratts, wR
Poultry Regulator!
Makes the loafers lay and gives Kj
you lots of eggs now. All your H
birds keep healthy and require
lessfeed. It actually saves its cost. H
Guard against Roup by uaing Pratti Bt*
Roup Remedy—Tablets or Powder. Guar> Bj
anteed to prevent aa well ai to cui«. %,
N. L. WILLET SEED CO 6131.
STEAM HEATING SYSTEMS and
Hot-Water Heating Plants repaired
and put In first-class working order.
Valves, Automatic Air Valves In
stock, the very best quality. Expert
steam-fitter for this work.
Telephone us today. Phone 472.
THE HENRY BUTT CO.,
611 Broad Street.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
The head of a chicken that is not fresh
will show a greenish color below the
bill, sunken eyes, and a darkening or
discoloration on the neck, all of which
indicate decay.
The housewife should require that the
entrails of a. chicken be not drawn, or at
least should have the butcher draw
them in iter presence. Moreover, the en
trails of the chicken often show dis
eased conditions that are not evident
after tlie bird is fully drawn. The ap
pearance of the entrails will help her to
tell whether the chicken is fresh and
whether it has been properly handled.
Kntrails in a good chicken should be
almost empty, round, firm in texture,
and showing little red veins here and
there. If the intestines are full, t lie
bird was not starved for 24 hours be
fore killing, as it should have been, or
else sand was fed to it to increase its
weight and work a fraud on the buyer.
If the animal heat was not removed
quickly and completely, the roundness of
the intestines will he lost and the folds
of the intestines will stick together.
There also will be an undue amount of
sliininess and an unpleasant odor which
is not found in a properly chilled bird.
There is, of course, always some odor
when the body cavity of a bird is open
ed, even if it is just killed, but this odor
is quite different from the pronounced
smell which comes with decay. An un
scrupulous dealer can not foist bad birds
on the housewife who dresses the chick
ens herself and knows how to interpret
what she sees and smells.
The skin of a chicken will tell the
housewife whether the bird has been
properly "dry” picked and "air chilled"
or whether it has been “scalded” in or
der to remove the feathers. The skin
of a dry-picked chicken is flexible,
translucent with the feather papillae
plainly visible and contains short hairs
which have to be removed by singeing.
If a chicken has been scalded, the skin
is hard, thick, close to the muscles un
derneath and almost free from these
hairs. The skin of a dry-picked chick
en which has been chilled in water has
lost the powdery look which is charac
teristic and is shiny, thicker than when
air chilled, anil It Is scarcely possible
to see the pink muscles underneath as
one should be able to do. A water chill
ed chicken is also it fraud to the buyer
because it absorbs water, which Is
charged for at chicken prices.
Housewives should insist on a dry
picked chicken, because any wetting of a
chicken, and especially scalding, lessens
or destroys the delicate flavor of the
meat.
Much Daring Work
at Front U. S.
Ambulance Corps
Paris.—The American Ambulance
Corps of Paris has done much dating
work at the front but thus far there has
not been a single casualty among the
staff, composed of doctors, beareft and
automobile drivers. A little girl from a
village In the firlngzone ws killed by a
shell while watching the American Am
bulance men placing a wounded man in
an automobile, yet no one else was hurt.
A British Amublanee next to one of the
American cars was struck by a shell and
blown into fragments, killing or wound
ing the entire crew, but none of the
American party nearby was not touch
ed.
Some doubt has arisen as to whether
neufrals should expose thfunselves to
such danger, but the difficulty has been
with tiie lenders of the American Ammu
lanee to keep their associates out of the
with the leaders of the American Ambu
lance train is often cheered when It ap
pears close up to the trenches. The
men stay at the front a week or ten
days and are then relieved by others
from Paris. A repair car accompanies
the ambulances at the front and any ac
cident to a machine Is thus almost Im
mediately repaired. Enough duplicate
parts are kept In stock In this repair
care to construct a new machine out
right.
GOUMIERS EQUIPMENT ALL
MOORISH EXCEPT RIFLES
Dunkirk. A troup of Goumlerfl, or
Algo rlin native cavalry, created more
Interest here on their way to the front
than any of the French African or Brit
ish Indian troops, because their equip
ment is entirely Moorish excepting I heir
rifles. High backed Moorish saddles,
built with all the comfort of rocking
chairs, are girthed upon wild looking
Arab horses. The men wear blue robes,
boots of red Morocco leather and a white
bowl-like fez, about which Is wound a
band Of brown yarn. The color of the
men Is light, although well tanned by
the sun, but their hair and eyes are
Jet black. Ons of the officers Is a
native who won mention In the des
patches IS times and received the cross
of the Legion of Honor In the Algerian
wars.
County Tax Books close this week.
Do your Christmas shop
ping early and avoid the
rush. There's no time like
the present.
It will pay to say “I saw it
in The Herald.”
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