Handbook of meat inspection . s according to tbe Jewisb metbod is caused by a defectivefasteniug of tbe bead. It may tbus occur tbat tbe animals breakloose as soon as tbe cutting of tbe tbroat is begun and tbrow tbebead witb tbe balf-severed tbroat violently from side to side. Toprevent tbis occurrence, Jukob lias devised a suitable consists, as sbown by Fig. 10, of a simple iron rod l\ meterslong and forked at one end. Tbe euds of tbe bifurcation are beutback in tbe form of a book. Tbe otber end is provided witb a,bandle. A moveable iron ring, fastened by a screw, is attacbed t


Handbook of meat inspection . s according to tbe Jewisb metbod is caused by a defectivefasteniug of tbe bead. It may tbus occur tbat tbe animals breakloose as soon as tbe cutting of tbe tbroat is begun and tbrow tbebead witb tbe balf-severed tbroat violently from side to side. Toprevent tbis occurrence, Jukob lias devised a suitable consists, as sbown by Fig. 10, of a simple iron rod l\ meterslong and forked at one end. Tbe euds of tbe bifurcation are beutback in tbe form of a book. Tbe otber end is provided witb a,bandle. A moveable iron ring, fastened by a screw, is attacbed to 142 THE ART OF BUTCHEßING tlie iron rod. The use of the apparatus consists in grasping thehorns of tlie auirnal by tlie curved ends of tlie bifurcations, a. Thepoint, b, of the apparatus, therefore, comea to He lipon the the movable ring, c, on the rod is pushed over the mouthand uose, and fastened to the iron rod by means of a screw,/. Thehead of the animal is thereby held fast in the apparatus. Im. Apparatus for holdiag- the head of cattle. The apparatus of Jakob, just described, has been modified byThielemann. Moreover, Winkler has constructed a new and verypractical head fastener (Ztschr. f. Milch u. Fleisch Hyg., IV). The blood of animals slaughtered according to the Jewishmethod is to be excluded from utilization as human food for thereason that it is contaminated by the stomach contents which flowout through the severed esophagus. Prohihitions against shughter hy the Jeioish mef/iod—Slaughteringaccording to the Jewish method is prohibited in Switzerland and inthe Kingdom of Saxony. A decree of the Saxon Ministry of theInterior, by which a petition for the removal of the prohibitionagainst this method of slaughter was denied, is of some interest. Inthe conclnsion of the decree it is stated, There is no good reasonto make an exception, as has been requested by the Jews, in case ofthe Provision concerning the moral status of the matter, which is


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