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usual manner of cramming fowls ; but this slight difficulty was 

 overcome by placing the birds, one at a time, on a low stand, 

 which raised them sufficiently off the ground to bring the 

 head on a level with the nozzle of the cramming machine, and 

 in such a position that the feed could be given quite con- 

 veniently. After a day or two the turkeys grew accustomed to 

 this manner of feeding, and when meal times came they showed 



Turkey Plucked and Tied in the Devonshire Style 



much eagerness to mount the stand and receive their share 

 of food. 



The foods used were the same as those fed to Lot No. 2, but 

 they were mixed and made up in a different way. Equal 

 parts of barley-meal, maize-meal, and finely-ground oats were 

 taken and mixed thoroughly. Then some pure linseed meal 

 .containing 12 per cent, of oil was added — only 2 oz. to each 

 bird per day, i.e., 1 oz. per meal. The whole was mixed with 



