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period of fattening it is not advisable to feed turkeys or fowls 

 oftener than twice a day. This last meal consisted of Indian 

 corn, oats and barley, all crushed and mixed together, and this 

 compound was fed from troughs in the yards, in the same 

 manner as the morning mash was fed. The turkeys returned 

 to the houses and spent the night there, not roosting but resting 

 on the ground, which was well littered with straw. 



Turkey Prepared for the London Market. (Back View). 



1 he above was the treatment which was accorded to all the 

 turkeys for the first ten days, and Lot No. 1 was treated exactly 

 as described throughout the whole period of twenty-one days, 

 except that an allowance of two ounces of melted fat for each 

 turkey was added to the mash every day during the latter half of 

 the fattening period. 



Lot No. 2 was put under a system of cramming, which has 

 very often been recommended in poultry newspapers, and which 



