The national standard squab book . The neck of the squab is placed rapidity we have made a machine between the movable arm (or lever) and the with which the operator can work with much lower arm, and the lever is brought down ease and satisfaction. The method of tweak- upon the neck, breakinfj the bones, crushing inR the necks which we describe and illustrate the spinal cord and killing the squab instantly, in the Manual is slow when compared with The operation produces no blood, nor does the work of this machine, and is repugnant it break the flesh. The two edges of the to many, espe
The national standard squab book . The neck of the squab is placed rapidity we have made a machine between the movable arm (or lever) and the with which the operator can work with much lower arm, and the lever is brought down ease and satisfaction. The method of tweak- upon the neck, breakinfj the bones, crushing inR the necks which we describe and illustrate the spinal cord and killing the squab instantly, in the Manual is slow when compared with The operation produces no blood, nor does the work of this machine, and is repugnant it break the flesh. The two edges of the to many, especially women. upper and lower arms, where they come to- Thc ilhistratinn shows the constnu-tion getheragainst the neck of the squab, should SUPPLEMENT 115 not be sharp so as to cut the flesh, bvil shimliibe rounding, and slightly flat at the pointsof contact. The base-board is made of three-fjuartersor one-inch lumber, twenty inches long andseven inches wide. The vipper arm (or lever)is of half-inch stock, one and three-quarters. inches wide and fifteen inches long. Thelower arm is of half-inch stock one and three-quarters inches wide and eight and one-halfinches long. The two upright pieces infront, nearest the hand oi the operator, areeach of seven-eighths or inch stock, one andthree-quarters inches wide and three andthree-quarters inches high. The two uprightpieces in back, furthest from the hand nfthe operator, are each of seven-eighths orinch stock, two and une-half inches wideand three and three-quarters inches high. The pin at the back <if the machine onwhich the lever turns is of one-quarter inchbrass or iron rod two and one-ciuarter inchesiong. The upper arm (or lever) is bevelled orcut off at an angle on lower corner (behindthe uprights, and conse<iuently invisibleIn the picture) so that the lever can be raisedto an angle of forty-five degrees, thus per-mitting the neck of the squab to be insertedbetween the arms at a point just back ofthe farther uprights. When
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