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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13. MUTT HAS TO DO SOMETHING TO PASS AWAY THE TIME - - - BY “BUD’' FISHER ~ r - SIR*, g/jEFFiYoulir illligl ~* " ' r r sf® | l\Tf \' r «eßfe- WAFr FOR. }\ [ij ** /x WON’T fie) & ll 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. \ 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. 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