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- 
sulting 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 
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