VIII. 
FEEDING FOR MARKET. 
HOW TO OBTAIN BEST RESULTS AT LEAST 
COST. 
TH chief aim, from the time the bird is capon- 
ized to the time of sale or slaughter, should 
be to produce the heaviest possible weight, and for 
this reason a liberal supply of flesh-forming food 
should be given. During the summer and earlier 
fall months I feed mostly bran slightly mixed with 
corn meal and moistened with skim-milk or butter- 
milk, and whole wheat. Corn is not a proper food 
_ then; but some variation is provided 
Senate Tee tot by giving an occasional mess of 
peas, buckwheat or oats. My fowls have free range, 
and find good pasture on the lawn and in a piece of 
rye and rape sown for this very purpose close to 
the barn. Grasshoppers, bugs, worms, table-scraps, 
etc., all help to fill the fowls crops and to produce 
capon meat. A vessel in the yard is kept supplied 
with skim-milk almost all the time. 
All quick growing animals have good appetites, 
and young capons seem to be always hungry. Not- 
withstanding their tendency to laziness, they are 
good foragers. 
The problem of profitable feeding during the sum- 
