LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



A Modern American Duck Farm Frontispiece 



Feeding Brooder Chicks 29 



Broilers Ready for Market 30 



Broiler Raising on a City Lot 33 



A Good Layer 43 



A Poor Layer 43 



Anatomy of a Fowl 47 



Meats and Grains Compared 53 



Dressed Capon C8 



Coops for Fattening 85 



Cramming Fowls in Large Plant 87 



American Poultry Cramming Machine 89 



English Feeding Machine 89 



Canadian Feeding Machine in Operation 91 



Funnel for Cramming 93 



Fattening and Killing Sheds, France 95 



English Fattening Pen 97 



English Fattening Shed 99 



Frame of Fattening Crate 104 



Chickens in Canadian Fattening Crate 105 



Fattening Chickens at Bondville, Quebec 106 



Fattening Crates with Board Shelter 107 



Process of Dressing Poultry 112 



Picking a Carcass 114 



Knife and Where to Cut 116 



Killing Bag and Knife Guide 117 



Beheading Block 119 



Table for Dressing Fowls 121 



Dressed Poultry Well Packed 123 



Fowl Dressed for Family Trade 128 



Canadian Shipping Box 129 



Turkeys Packed and Marked 137 



Duck Picking 141 



Pair of Dressed Ducks 143 



Killing Department of English Duck Farm 146 



English Duck Ranch, General View 14S 



Breast and Thigh Development 149 



Shaped Sussex Fowls 150 



Shaped Fowls, French 151 



Shaped Poultry, La Bresse 152 



Shaping Board, French 153 



Shaping Cloths, French 155 



Chickens in Canadian Shaping Boards 156 



Canadian Shaping Trough in ITso 157 



