Award of Medals, &c., at Kilburn. 717 
Fig. 11, — Interior of a pen of Madame Aillerat's Engraisseuse, 
Fig. 11 shows the interior of the pen with a fowl as it stands 
when feeding. The floor is partly close-boarded and partly open- 
grilled to allow of the passage of the manure into the drawer. 
The metal trough is also shown in detail, F being the compart- 
ment for grain or prepared food, G that for milk and water. The 
fowls are not compelled to eat, and consequently, though they 
progress well, the process is not so rapid as when crammed. 
Great care has been bestowed vpon the construction of the 
Engraisseuse. There is a drawer to catch the manure, which 
falls through a grating. The food is placed in the metal trough, 
as described above. The dough usually consists of flour mixed 
with milk and water f or barley, buckwheat, or rye-flour may be 
used as a change. Experience shows that poultry must be 
kept very clean, and the food-pans are washed out once a day. 
Specimens of La Fleche poultry fed by Madame Aillerat, weigh- 
ing 7^ lbs. each, were shown. The price of this apparatus is 
SI. 185. 
For cramming purposes Messrs. Christy and Co. exhibited the 
Patent " Compression," manufactured by MM. Rouillier and 
Arnoult, the working of which is illustrated in Fig. 12 (p. 718). 
The objection to this machine as compared with that of 
Odile Martin, is that the fowl has to be taken out of its 
box by the wings, placed on the platform G ; the head is held 
in the right hand ; the forefinger and thumb pressing at the side 
of the mouth opens it ; then the head of the bird is raised, and 
the tube, as far as the brass junction of the pipes, slips down 
