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Americans prefer yellow skin and flesh. Corn is, 

 therefore, to be preferred in this country as a 

 fattening food to wheat, barley, or buckwheat. It 

 not only produces the desired product but is the 

 cheapest food that the market affords. 



Fattening by means of cramming has been tried 

 in several places in this country, but without pro- 

 nounced satisfactory results. The American market 

 does not demand so excessively fat fowls to bring 

 the highest prices as do some of the great markets 

 of Europe. Some experiments tend to show that 

 almost equal gains in weight may be obtained by 

 ordinary methods of feeding to those gained by 

 cramming. The gains in weight by the cramming 

 process are due mostly to the addition of fat, while 

 the ordinary methods produce more flesh. 



