Turkey loading apparatus

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AN APPARATUS FOR LOADING POULTRY FOR TRANSPORT FROM A FIELD TO A DISTRIBUTION POINT COMPRISING AN UPRIGHT PARTITION FENCE DISPOSED IN SAID FIELD, SAID FENCE HAVING AN OPENING EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY THERETHROUGH ADJACENT AN END THEREOF, A PAIR OF LATERALLY-SPACED AND SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL TRACKS EXTENDING PARALLEL TO SAID FENCE AND HAVING A FIRST SECTION THEREOF JUXTAPOSED WITH RESPECT TO SAID FENCE AND A SECOND SECTION THEREOF PROJECTING BEYOND SAD ONE SAID OF SAID FENCE, A CLOSURE MEMBER MOUNTED FOR RECIPROCATION ON ONE OF SAID TRACKS AND HAVING AN END THEREOF PROXIMATE A SIDE OF SAID OPENING, SAID FIRST SECTION OF SAID TRACKS COMPRISING A POULTRY LOADING STATION AND SAID SECOND SECTION COMPRISING A POULTRY UNLOADING STATION, AN ELONGATED CARRIAGE MOUNTED FOR RECIPROCATION ON SAID TRACKS, SAID CARRIAGE HAVING A PLURALITY OF LONGITUDNALLY SPACED TRAYS FIXEDLY SECURED THERETO FOR RECIPROCABLE MOVEMENT THEREWITH, A HOLLOW POULTRY-RECEIVING CRATE FOR EACH OF SAID TRAYS, SAID CRATES BEING RELESABLY SUPPORTED ON SAID TRAYS, EACH OF SAID CRATES HAVING AN OPEN END FACING IN THE DIRECTION OF SAID FENCE, SAID CARRIAGE BEING MOVABLE TO SUCCESSIVELY PRESENT THE OPEN END OF ONE OF SAID CRATES IN REGISTRY WITH SAID OPENING TO RECEIVE POULTRY THEREIN WHEN SAID CLOSURE MEMBER IS IN ITS OPN POSITIJON, SAID CLOSURE MEMBER BEING DISPOSED IN ITS POSITIONED WHEN SAID ONE CRATE HAS RECEIVED SAID POULTRY, SAID CARRIAGE BEING MOVABLE FROM SAID FIRST TRACK SECTION TOGETHER WITH SAID CRATES ONTO SAID SECOND TRACK SECTION, A TRANSFER CRATE COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF RECEPTACLES HAVING A PAIR OF