The business hen (a new brood) . is heaviest at seasons commonly known as Jewishholidays, movable feasts. The exact dates for any year may be learnedfrom dealers in live poultry. The principal feasts are the Hebrew NewYears, Feast of Tabernacles, Feast of Laws, and Passover. In New Yorkthe receiving stations are centralized, and from these distribution is madeto butchers. Fig. 38 shows a crate of live poultry, and Fig. 39 a lotof crates as piled on a wagon in West Washington market ready to becarted to the East Side Jewish sections where Kosher meat is 40 shows a typical retail shop.
The business hen (a new brood) . is heaviest at seasons commonly known as Jewishholidays, movable feasts. The exact dates for any year may be learnedfrom dealers in live poultry. The principal feasts are the Hebrew NewYears, Feast of Tabernacles, Feast of Laws, and Passover. In New Yorkthe receiving stations are centralized, and from these distribution is madeto butchers. Fig. 38 shows a crate of live poultry, and Fig. 39 a lotof crates as piled on a wagon in West Washington market ready to becarted to the East Side Jewish sections where Kosher meat is 40 shows a typical retail shop. The cuts of rooster and animalshead in the window indicate that officially prepared meats are on sale the basement door the artist has inserted a scene familiar betore therecent regulations forbidding the exposure of meats on the street. Themarket woman is dissecting a fowl for a fricassee while the customerwaits. This work is now done under cover. Broilers are received in market live and dressed, the latter dry-packed. 84 The Business Hen.
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