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rOULl'KY FEEDING AND EATTENING 



brown paper, leaving the neck and head projecting at 

 one end and the legs at the other. Shipping cases for 

 twelve fowls are 33x19x6 1-2 inches. The financial 

 side of one experiment foots np as follows: Cost of 

 chickens, fifty-four cents ; food, thirty-three cents ; ship- 

 ping cases, three cents; freight, commission, etc., eigh- 

 teen cents; total cost, $1.08 ner pair. They sold for 

 $1.76 per pair. 



Fig. 20 — CRATES OF CHICKENS FATTENING UNDER THE 

 TREES AT BONDVILLE, QUE. 



The result of the second year's work was con- 

 sidered on the whole much better than the result of 

 the first at every station. The knowledge and ability 

 can be acquired only by experience. In a locality where 

 a station was opened, the first year the farmers had not 

 the right sort of chickens to fatten well. Breeds of 

 chickens like Leghorns and Minorcas do not fatten 

 profitably. The fattening of them is like trying to 

 fatten Jersey steors as against Shorthorn bullocks. 

 The Plymouth Eocks and Wyandottes give far better 

 results in fattening than tlie smaller breeds. At 



