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forward they are fed twice a day — early morning and late 

 evening — and the food consists of meal of various kinds, mixed 

 with separated milk to form a thin, sloppy mess. The food is 

 placed in the troughs which are attached to the front of the 

 coops, and the chickens are allowed to eat for twenty minutes or 

 so, until they have become satiated. Any food left over is then 

 removed from the troughs, and they are scraped clean and 

 washed. This treatment is continued without variation for ten 

 or twelve days, and then the birds are moved to the indoor coops 



Pen of Buff Orpingtons. 



to take the place of the batch which has just been killed, and to 

 make room for a new lot from the farms. 



When confined indoors the fowls are crammed by a machine 

 of the well-known type, and by its means semi-liquid food is 

 pumped into the crops of fowls at the rate of about 200 per hour. 

 Ten days of this special treatment will usually suffice to put the 

 birds into perfect condition for killing. With regard to the foods 

 used those most often recommended are finely ground oats and 

 barley, with skim milk and a small proportion of fat, which 

 latter is fed only during the last week or ten days of the fatten- 



