AMERICAN POULTRY CULTURE 



the, remaining few weeks of their lives by feeding 

 extra large amounts of animal food and by forcing 

 them with rich mashes, patent poultry condiments 

 and anything else of a stimulating nature. Three 

 mashes a day may safely be fed, and see that the 

 chicks get all they will eat up clean at each meal. 



The three great broiler feeds are ground oats, 

 ground corn, and middlings ; the first for bone and 

 muscle, and the latter two for fat and flesh. Make 

 the mashes about equal parts of these three grain 

 feeds and add twenty per cent, of ground beef 

 scraps, or give a liberal feed of green cut bone each 

 evening. In addition, keep a hopper of the beef 

 scraps constantly before them, and also see that 

 they get all the green food they will eat. Only 

 remember that too much meat and other stimu- 

 lating feeds have a tendency to produce looseness 

 of -the bowels among fowls of all ages. Much 

 range is not desirable for broilers, as they are likely 

 to take too much exercise and " run off," as it were, 

 a great part of their development. 



Capons are male birds which have been cas- 

 trated, that is, their generative sexual organs have 



been removed. The advantages re- 

 Capons , . f . 



suiting from the operation are a 



sweeter and finer flavor of the flesh, an increased 

 price in the fowl when it has matured, and a higher 

 price in the market than could be secured for an 

 uncaponized cockerel. Birds that are caponized 



