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Experiments in Fattening Turkeys, [oct., 



skim milk until it was as thin as thick cream, and to this 

 an allowance of melted fat, equal to I oz. per meal for each 

 turkey, was added. This thin mash or slop formed in this 

 manner was allowed to stand for twelve hours before being 

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and pumped through the india-rubber nozzle into the crops 

 of the birds in the way already described. This treatment was 

 continued up to the time of killing, namely, the 15th of 

 December, and the results were quite satisfactory, as shown in 

 the table of figures set forth above. 



A clear idea of the results arrived at by the three systems 

 of fattening turkeys may be obtained from Diagram No. 2, on 

 each method is shown as follows : 



