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HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION
A Weekly Page of Poultry Hint« to You
Here Is a Department Full of Bright Ideas for Readers of the Home and Farm Magazine Section.
test the efficiency of refrigerator
T O poultry,
cars in the shipment of dressed
and to determine the
tailer handling the goods on the mar­
ket.
The temperatures indicated by this
changes that take place in this poultry investigation to be most desirable for
in transit at different temperatures, the the transportation of dressed poultry
Bureau of Chemistry, United States De­ are considerably lower than those gen­
partment of Agriculture, has made com­ erally accepted as satisfactory .
Ov\ C o V ta a se t V>e a .c \\
plete examinations and records of 120.
Efficiency of Oars.
TVe G reat O cean ^ p eo rt of
carload shipments of dressed poultry
T h e P a c ific MortYxweet
which traveled an aggregate of 140,000 The information furnished by these
120 car shipments of dressed poultry in
miles.
Have you ever experienced the delights
The hauls averaged between 1000 to dicate that most of the refrigerated car
of a vacation a t a real seaside resort? I t ’s
1500 miles, and terminated generally in riers of the United States are not built
maintain optimum condivrn during
New York City. No car was used twice,
the finest outing in the world, for nothing
warm
weather for the transportation of
and many different types of ordinary
compares
with the real ocean for genuine
a
highly
perishable
commodity,
such
as
refrigerator cars were employed.
fun, pleasure, sport and health upbuilding
The shipments were made in winter dressed poultry. Certain refrigerator
and summer, so that the effect of out­ cars are much more efficient than oth­
recreation power.
side temperatures could be determined. ers, and their increased efficiency ap
parentl.v
results
from
their
construction.
Many of the cars were equipped with
If you would like to know how you can obtain a choice lot
accurate recording devices which show­ The insulation of the car in relation
to
temperature
is
its
most
vulnerable
for
nothing in the new Northwest Pacific Ocean Resort Town-
ed the temperature near the ice bunker
and in various parts of the car, and part, with the character of the ice bun­
site of SEAHURST, where $100,000.00 will be spent in improve­
ker next in importance. In the past
also outside temperature.
ments, simply fill in and mail us the attached coupon.
As a result of this experiment the the insulation has not been sufficiently
heavy
to
maintain
the
low
temperatures
The proposition is only open to a limited num ber of people.
specialists have found that the builders
o f refrigerator cars have not kept pace produced by the refrigerant, and the
To be in time you must return the coupon promptly.
with the refrigerating industry in gen­ bunker has not been so built as to dis­
eral, and uave also determined the tem­ tribute its refrigerating effect evenly
OREGON & WASHINGTON DEVELOPMENT COMPANY
peratures which best keep poultry fresh throughout the car.
401*2 Green Building, Seattle, W u l
in long trips from Iowa or Tennessee to This last was fully established by the
Send me full particulars regarding your proposition, also your free Illustrated
use of thermographs and the electric re­
the Atlantic Coast markets.
folder describing Seahurst, the new Ocean Resort Townsite of the Northwest.
cording thermometers in various parts
Poultry Carefully Prepared.
The poultry shipped in these cars was of the car. The use of a dead air space
Name
carefully prepared and chilled for 24 in cars is not found to be successful.
hours to 32 degrees P., packed in one Cork, the best known insulator, which
Street or R. F. I).
dozen to the box, and the boxes placed is almost impervious to water and con­
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in refrigerator cars which had been tains practically no nitrogenous ma­
terial which might produce decay, has
iced 24 hours before loading.
Accurate chemical analyses of the con not been used to any great extent in
ditions of the poultry were made prior car construction. Wool and hair felt are
to the shipment, special attention being good insulators, but their high percent
IH HEART Of tlTY
Hen and Incubator
given to the percentage of ammoniacal age of nitrogenous material makes them
nitrogen in the muscle tissue, which is good bacterial media when moist.
H otel
Áre Compared
These materials when once moist sel
an accurate index of the degree of de
terioration in the fresh dressed poul dom dry out, and the result is putrefac­
try. The fresh chicken shows .0110 per tion, giving rise to offensive odors,
HE hen is an efficient mother and
BfFBEE ES
cent such nitrogen. It was found that which contaminate goods. Some of the
has certain advantages which no
poultry kept at a temperature of 18 vegetable or cellulose fiber insulators
EGEE FB EG
artificial system has been able to
SEATTLR
degrees to 26 degrees P. showed only are perhaps slightly more resistant to
PE
EF EBBE
‘T w s lv e S f o r i « * »
.0120, while a temperature of above 31 moisture and basterial action, but in provide. But the incubator is better
BE EFFE EG « • l i d Cemfer«**
degrees P. gave a nitrogen per cent of time they also become moist, and the adapted to large enterprises and to small
£ EE FEES
alkalies is for this reason that car ones under certain conditions. Notwith
In the C e n te r o f
.0131, and 35 degrees P. or above,
thing*— theatre* and
builders are exerting every effort to standing the popularity of incubators,
nitrogen per cent of .0141.
•tore* on both sides-
The poultry after arrival in the car prevent moisture from reaching the in­ large and small, and brooders of dif­
Buiiding absolutely
was then kept under examination while sulation. Mineral wool is least sub­ ferent sizes and styles, Prof. A. C.
fireproof— concrete,
in the wholesale commission houses, and ject to decay, but on the other hand, Smith, poultryman Minnesota Agricul­
steel and marble.
at the retailers. The commission houses its non-adhesive qualities hinder the tural college, maintains that there is an
advantage
for
the
small
poultryman
in
bcroman «.AN
kept the low temperature shipments at manufacture of strong material.
hatching with hens.
BI fee D .y By
29.8 degrees P., whereas the average for
Insulation Is Alike.
He says that hatching in the old-
the high temperature shipments was 32.2
The insulation in the side walls and fashioned way involves very little ex­
I t o o m * $ 1 .O O p a r d a y a p
degrees P. The retail stores kept their
R o o m s w it h p r iv a te h a th S 2 .0 0 a p
poultry at from 35 degrees P. to 30.3 de floors of the cars used by six different pense—none whatever if the poultry-
lines shows no radical difference in man owns bis own flock. A further
green P.
It was found that the high tempera­ quality or quantity, though methods of advantage is that a small number of
ture shipments after a transit period of construction in certain cases are pre­ eggs may be set, thereby allowing in­
cubation soon after the eggs are laid,
five days showed ar increase in nitrogen ferable.
The roof of the car theoretically is which often means better hatches and
to 0.143 per cent. The high temperature
shipments at a retailer’s after seven most severely taxed to prevent trans­ stronger chicks. With proper arrange ­
days showed a nitrogen percentage of mission of heat. The most efficient cars ments and, up to a small limit, the same
YOU*
.0188. The changes during the commis­ studied were those with the best in­ number of eggs set under hens, requires
FRUITS AND
sion period were, therefore, very slight, sulated and best built roofs. More at no more work than when the hatching is
VEGETABLES
but after four days at a retailer’s, or tention should be paid to roof and floor done with an incubator.
FROM A
nine days after the railroad haul the insulation, and the floor should be built
When
a
sitting
hen
abandons
her
GLUTTED
low temperature shipments increased to with its insulation more effectively pro­ nest there are fewer eggs spoiled than
MARKET
.0144 per cent, which is nearly the same tected against moisture.
when an incubator goes wrong, and this
With a Na­
The wire-basket principle of ice bun­ is frequently a big item. But there is
as the high temperature shipments at
tional Steam
ker is sound because abundant air ac­ another good word for the brooding
the end of transit period.
Pressure Can­
This indicates that if the car tem­ cess to ice and salt results in increased hen, and that is in caring for the baby
ning Outfit.
perature is above 35 degrees P. the poul­ efficiency. A serious shortcoming of chicks. She will take better care in gen
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try when it reaches the market has the the present types of cars is the impossi­ eral, of the chicks she hatches, than the
catalogue 14.
disadvantage of a deterioration equiva­ bility of equalizing the temperature at average human being can take, and be
HENNINGEB & AYES MTQ. CO.,
lent to five or more days in the mar­ the center and at the bunker so that vause of that service, lesa attention is
ket, and must be consumed five days all parts of the car are sufficiently required than where the chicks are rear­
47 First Street, Portland, Oregon.
earlier than that arriving at car tem­ cold. Good bunkers and any additional ed in brooders.
insulation, together with the stowing
peratures below 24 degrees P.
of the load so as to provide passages for The professor indulges in a little hu­
Most Satisfactory Temperature.
mor when he says in preparing a place
The experiments indicated that less cold air between packages, should ma for a ben to sit a man usually “ selects
than 31 degrees P. is the most satisfac­ terially help to improve results.
box of large or small dimensions, but
The well-cooled package does not show a usually
tory temperature of dressed poultry for
not less than ten inches in
long hauls. The ten-degree rise in the changes in temperature corresponding to height, therein a nest of hay, the eggs,
temperature of the car during the haul those in the air of the car, but a long then hen, and outside a little water and
makes a difference in keeping time on continued increase of temperature or corn, and expects the hen to do the
Let him play in overalls
the New York market, even when the direct contract between the package and rest. Of course, the . en has to leave
with never a care in the
the wall of the car, and therefore, the
market conditions are favorable.
world and you will make
the nest, and to return she must jump
him a healthy, happy boy.
Even poultry excellently handled, as source of heat, affects the goods in first upon the edge of the box, ten or
the
course
of
time.
The
daily
rise
and
Be sure to buy him
was the case in these experimental ship­
twelve inches high, and from this perch
ments, if exposed to unfavorable tern nightly fall of temperature in the car she is expected to alight in the midst
Two-Horae Brand
peratures during transportation, receives sometimes result in slight changes in of thirteen to fifteen eggs without
the
packages,
but
it
is
the
constant
or
Overall«
an impetus towards decay that cannot
striking one. If the hen selected that
be overcome by subsequent careful maintained rise in the average tempera- nest it would be where she would walk
T he kind that ia made
treatment on the market. It is a com­ ture of the car that is responsible for on and off, and the sensational high
for comfort and long wear.
paratively simple matter to prevent de objectionable results noted at the ex­ dive would be omitted from the daily
cay, but it seems to be impossible to piration of long hauls.
program.' ’
stop decay by tne use of low tempera
lures once the decay has gained a foot
In a Budapest publication it ia stated
Mrs. Anderson Hughes Drew claims
hold.
that the Countess Ostenplaten, who that New Zealand shows the success of
Imperfect work by the carrier nulli­ spent more than «200 000 a year on
fies to a certain extent the work of dress, has left bar heirs sixty dresses woman's suffrage in that the infant
mortality is smaller than in any other \ L 1 V 1 STRAUSS A By CO., f a VwKfaeeJ
the packed, and the wholesaler or re |and 110 hats—but nothing else
country in the world.
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