When "Fevvers" Don't Fly

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 30, 7 February 1930, Page 28

When "Fevvers" Don't Fly

PLUCKING birds is one of the novelty uses to which electricity has been put. The mechanical plucking machine appears to be an almost intelligent and wholly desirable device, which not only plucks the birds, but bags the short body feathers, automatically rejecting the "longs" and studs. A current of air which collects the pluckings continues to blow through the bag all the time it is filling, thus drying out the feathers and completing its duties, While this maehine is for big-scale operation, the near future may bring to many lucky housewives the pleasure of having the long-cherished turkey thus attended to, with the assurance that his feathers are safely tied up in a bag and not lying on the best carpet. The apparatus is controlled by a 13 to 13 h.p. motor, and has a capacity of 60 birds per hour. ihe.