] 14 FATTENING CHICKENS. 



sweet milk is preferable (except on the score 

 of economy) to sour. 



I have been informed that some persons 

 have succeeded in fattening fowls very ex- 

 peditiously by giving nothing but hasty- 

 pudding for a week or ten days. This is 

 made, in our part of the country, by boiling 

 Indian corn-meal over night, and when cold 

 next morning, cut it into thin slices, and fry 

 them in lard (any sort of refuse grease will, 

 however, answer for this purpose). When 

 given to the fowls, they are thickly powder- 

 ed with any cheap brown sugar, or covered 

 with molasses. 



Charcoal is highly recommended, not that 

 it fattens of itself, but it is thought to pro 

 mote digestion. 



Animal food is highly necessary, and, 

 when given in small quantities, aids very 

 much the process of fattening. If too much 

 is given, it communicates a rank and disa- 

 greeable flavour. On the seashore, where 

 farmers, for economy's sake, suffer their 

 fowls to eat crabs and other shell-fish, their 

 flesh is so highly tainted with them as to be 



