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fed on barley, or other grain, with only a 

 moderate quantity of hot potatoes, which, 

 during the last fortnight, must be omitted, 

 and the paste of meal and mutton-suet mixed 

 up with new milk substituted. 



This will, of course, occasion a greater con- 

 sumption of corn, but it will cause less trouble 

 than that of cramming, and will have the 

 advantage of their increasing in weight ; they 

 will also continue fit for use, and indeed im- 

 proving, during the winter, and therefore may 

 be killed at any time when wanted, whereas a 

 crammed turkey — as we have remarked in 

 regard to fowls — should be dressed when 

 brought to the point of being fat. When 

 intended for family consumption, it is, there- 

 fore, far better to feed them in the common 

 mode, and indeed we have fattened old birds 

 to great weights even without cooping. They 

 should, however, in that case, be shut up to- 

 gether in a rather darkened room, and only 

 allowed to go out for about an hour in each 

 day to air themselves and have their chamber 

 cleaned and ventilated. 



The xceiglit to which they may be grown 

 depends partly upon their age, but more on 



