.Turkeys, cliickens, ducks and otheT fowl can now be killed for market with a new electrocuting machine invented by two San Erancisco men. Susponded J from a moving belt by wire clamps which pinion their legs, the birds are pressed against metal eleetrodes carrying an eleetrie charge of from 1000 to 1500 volts, and are instantly kiiled. The poultry "eleetrie chair" is said to provide a cleaner, quicker, and more iumane wsy to Trill poultry than the .**0*1 Kfthods e«nplqyed, "1 • 4
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 32, 22 February 1937, Page 8
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