A recent American invention is an “electric chair" for killing poultry, which is designed to do away with the old method of decapitation.* The bird is hung head down by one wire attached to its The other wire clamps on its head, and a switch sends an electrocuting charge through its body. The process of thinking speeds up the body’s heat production about 4 per cent.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20786, 22 April 1939, Page 27 (Supplement)
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