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Chicken and. Poultry Farming in Germany. 
warm in the kitchens, and, so raised, command the best prices in the 
early spring markets. 
As might be expected, the Schloss is not without a considerable 
population of rats and mice. 
The value of the produce is thus estimated : Smaller chickens, 
fat, and sent all over Germany, packed, dead, in hampers, 1 mark 
GO pf. (1 mark=ls. English). Larger, 2 marks 60 pf. Some excep- 
tionally large and older, 4 marks 50 pf. A goose, after being 
plucked, cleaned, and trimmed, sells for 11c?. per English lb. The 
feathers are sold, white feathers being most in demand ; and all the 
Fig. 1. 
1, Roof space occupied by chickens : 2, the English student's room (two windows) ; 3, position 
of incubating room (for interior see Fig. 5). 
birds of all kinds sold are plucked, cleaned, and sent off six hours 
after they are killed. 
The staff employed — the master, Hei r Gruenhaldt, excepted — is, 
in addition to one maid in the house, — 
One clerk, for hotel and other correspondence ; 
The manager, a Hungarian, a man skilled in poultry art ; 
One foreman, who is not concerned in the poultry business; 
Three boys, who mix food, and attend and clean and shut up the 
poultry at night under the direction of the manager. 
Three or four men are employed on the place for the cows, garden, 
orchards, etc. 
Extreme cleanliness is an essential feature of the poultry manage- - 
