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.
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 Director of Information. | M. S. Eisenhower. |
| 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 Administration | H. R. Tolley, Administrator. |
| 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 Quarantine | Lee A. Strong, Chief. |
| 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. |
U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1939
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