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ket, will be in a better condition and probably bring a better 



price. A good fattening ration for fowls is: 



10 pounds of corn meal "I Mix with 2 gallons of skim 



5 pounds of middlings / milk or buttermilk. 



This mixture should be fed morning and noon, and 

 cracked corn fed for the evening meal. When skim milk or 

 buttermilk is not avail- 

 able, add }/2 pound of 

 beef scrap to the above 

 mixture. Such green feed 

 as previously mentioned 

 under broilers should like- 

 wise be fed when milk 

 is not available. In most 

 cases it is not advisable 

 or profitable to attempt 

 to fatten fowls that are 

 to be shipped to market 

 alive unless they are in 

 very poor condition, when 

 such special feeding as 

 just given may help to 

 improve them. 



CAPONS 



In addition to the in- 

 formation given in Chap- 

 ter XI on marketing 

 capons, the following 

 suggestions are given 

 concerning the preparation of capons for market. About 

 two or three weeks before shipping the capons to market 

 confine them to small yards and feed from 3 to 4 times a day 

 a grain mixture of equal parts of corn and wheat, together 

 with a dry mash, to which they will have access constantly, 



Figure 285. — Portable fattening^ battery as 

 used by large commercial fattening plants. 



