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Should a bird become sick in the crate, I find that if it is given 

 a teaspoonful of salts and turned out on a grass run it will usually 

 recover. 



Cramming Machine. 



The crammer consists of a food reservoir, to the bottom of which 

 it attached a small force-pump moved by a lever and treadle which is 

 worked by the foot of the operator. 



Communicating- with the pump is a nozzle, through which the food 

 passes to the bird. 



Fig. 22. Cramming machine for the forced feeding of chickens, turkeys, etc. 



"A," is the food reservoir; "B," the pump; "E," the pump rod; 

 "O," the lever, which on being depressed at the lettered end, causes 

 the pump rod "E," to which it is attached, to move downwards, and 

 to eject the contents of the pump "B" out of the nozzle "K." On 

 relieving the pressure at "O," the lever and the parts connected there- 

 with are drawn up by the spring "C," until the motion is arrested by 

 a stop "M," which serves to determine the quantity of food ejected at 

 each depression of the treadle. 



The charge may also be varied by arresting the pressure at any 

 point in the downward thrust of the lever "O. " 



The illustration (Fig. 22) shows one method of operating with this 

 crammer, and this plan is now largely followed in some parts of Sussex, 

 England. 



