POULTRY FLESH AND FATTENING 
HOW TO FATTEN CHICKENS FOR THE EXPORT TRADE. 
To fatten birds for the export trade, it is necessary 
to have proper coops to put them in. These should be 
two feel long, twenty inches high and twenty inches 
deep, the top, bottom and front made of slats. This 
size will hold four birds, but the cheapest plan is to 
build the coops ten feet long and divide them into five 
sections. 
What to Feed. 
Oats chopped fine, the coarse hulls sifted out, two 
parts; ground buckwheat, one part; mix with skim- 
milk to a good soft batter, and feed three times a day. 
Or, black barley and oats, two parts oats to one part 
barley. Give clean drinking water twice a day, grit 
twice a week, and charcoal once a week. During the 
first week the birds are in the coops ‘they should be 
fed sparingly—only about one-half of what they will 
eat. After that gradually increase the amount until 
you find out just how much they will eat up clean 
each time. Never leave any food in the troughs, as 
it will sour and cause trouble. Mix the food always 
one feed ahead. Birds fed in this way will be ready 
for the export trade in from four to five weeks. 
Chickens make the best gain put in the coop weighing 
three to four pounds. 
We Supply the Coops. 
We have on hand a number of coops for fattening 
chicks, which we will loan to any person, “free of 
charge”, who will sign an agreement to bring all 
chicks fattened in them to us. Every farmer should 
have at least one of these coops, as this is the only 
way to fatten chicks properly. In this way you can 
get the highest market price. We can handle any 
quantity of chicks properly fatted. 
ARMSTRONG BROS. 
The farmer who does not think it worth while to construct 
fattening-crates for his own crop of chickens, may get very 
fair results by simply enclosing the chickens in some vacant 
shed. To these may feed a ration of two-thirds corn meal 
and one-third shorts, or some of the more complicated rations 
used at the fattening plants may be fed. 
In the East, poultry fattening on the general farm is not 
dissimilar from the practices in the Central West, but we find 
a larger use of cramming machines, caponizing, and the grow- 
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