Part 6

Another system of grading in common use in buying dressed turkeys is to make only 2 or 3 grades, except that sometimes the birds within the top grades are divided into classes based on weight and sex. The no. 1 grade usually consists of young toms weighing 12 pounds or more and young and old hens weighing 8 pounds or more, dressed. For this grade the birds must be well finished and free from serious tears, bruises, and severely crooked breastbones. The crops must be empty and the carcasses reasonably free from pinfeathers and reasonably well bled. The no. 2 grade includes all old toms and such young toms, young hens, and old hens as are too light for the no. 1 grade. The no. 2 grade also includes turkeys with severely crooked breastbones, broken wings, bad blemishes, bad tears, bad abrasions, feed in crops, numerous pinfeathers, and birds that have been poorly bled or poorly fleshed. The no. 3 grade includes birds not good enough for the no. 2 grade but still fit for food. These are culls that never should have been marketed. The no. 3 grade is not always used, since turkeys of this kind are often rejected by the buyers. On some markets a medium grade of birds--between the no. 1 and the no. 2 grades--is used.

When graded and packed for market turkeys are further graded as to size, birds of similar weight being placed in the same container, which is labeled according to the grade.

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ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE WHEN THIS PUBLICATION WAS LAST PRINTED

_Secretary of Agriculture_ Henry A. Wallace. _Undersecretary_ M. L. Wilson. _Assistant Secretary_ Harry L. Brown. Coordinator of Land Use Planning and M. S. Eisenhower. Director of Information. _Director of Extension Work_ C. W. Warburton. _Director of Finance_ W. A. Jump. _Director of Personnel_ Roy F. Hendrickson. _Director of Research_ James T. Jardine. _Solicitor_ Mastin G. White. _Agricultural Adjustment H. R. Tolley, _Administrator_. Administration_ _Bureau of Agricultural Economics_ A. G. Black, _Chief_. _Bureau of Agricultural Engineering_ S. H. McCrory, _Chief_. _Bureau of Animal Industry_ John R. Mohler, _Chief_. _Bureau of Biological Survey_ Ira N. Gabrielson, _Chief_. _Bureau of Chemistry and Soils_ Henry G. Knight, _Chief_. _Commodity Exchange Administration_ J. W. T. Duvel, _Chief_. _Bureau of Dairy Industry_ O. E. Reed, _Chief_. _Bureau of Entomology and Plant Lee A. Strong, _Chief_. Quarantine_ _Office of Experiment Stations_ James T. Jardine, _Chief_. _Farm Security Administration_ W. W. Alexander, _Administrator_. _Food and Drug Administration_ Walter G. Campbell, _Chief_. _Forest Service_ Ferdinand A. Silcox, _Chief_. _Bureau of Home Economics_ Louise Stanley, _Chief_. _Library_ Claribel R. Barnett, _Librarian_. _Bureau of Plant Industry_ E. C. Auchter, _Chief_. _Bureau of Public Roads_ Thomas H. MacDonald, _Chief_. _Soil Conservation Service_ H. H. Bennett, _Chief_. _Weather Bureau_ Francis W. Reichelderfer, _Chief_.

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Transcriber Note

Illustrations were moved to avoid splitting paragraphs. Display of numbers was standardized in the tables to show leading zeros.