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toes given warm which is indispensable three or f< r 

 times a day. The fowls were taken in good condition from Hie 

 yard, confined in dry, well-ventilated coops, and covered in, so 

 as to prevent the entrance of too much light. This method was 

 attended with the greatest success. 



Sir Isaac Coffin's, The method recommended by Sir Isaac 

 Coffin is said to produce quick results. He puts the fowls to 

 be fattened in small cages or pens separately, so that they may 

 be in a manner cased up, and so closely wedged in as to be able 

 to move with great difficulty. These cages or pens must be 

 placed in a warm situation, and the fowls crammed two or 

 three times a day, by means of a cramming funnel, with the 

 meal of barley, wheat, small millet, maize, or the like, soaked 

 in milk. At first, this ought to be given in small quantity, in 

 a rather liquid state, increasing this gradually till the crop be 

 entirely filled. The whole of the cram must be digested before 

 another be given, so that the process of digestion may not be 

 disturbed. 



Sir C. CockerwelVs. The East Indian mode of fattening 

 was introduced with great success, it is said, by Sir C. Cock- 

 erwell. The chief peculiarity is, that the cages or coops, made 

 to contain only one fowl, are furnished, like the cages of sing- 

 ing-birds, with two sliding bottoms of wicker-work, which are 

 changed and washed clean every day. The fowls are fed and 

 crammed in the usual way, and the coops are put in a dark 

 place, or covered with mats, to exclude the light. They become 

 fat in a very short time. (Baxter's Library of Agriculture, 3d 

 edition, p. 535.) 



Similar methods are used in this country, and with complete 

 success ; but Mowbray's ideas on this important subject seem to 

 be most generally received, and the practice recommended by 

 him is more extensively followed than any other. From his 

 work, therefore, we extract the following hints and directions. 



