170 STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, 
applied to the amount of meat ordinarily eaten at a meal and 
might easily be eounterbalanced by the tenderness or tough- 
ness, the fatness or leanness of a particular specimen or by the 
mode of cooking. 
What has been said in the last paragraph refers of course to 
the differences between poultry in general and the other com- 
mon meats in general. Let us now see how the different kinds 
of poultry comparé¢ with each other in nutritive value. Our 
statements must of course refer only to the average composition 
of birds of a given kind, and when the differences between the 
two kinds are on the average very slight, it might easily hap- 
pen that differences in individual specimens might change the 
aspect of the comparison. ; 
Common fowl—by which we mean here the mature birds— 
contain a little more refuse than the average poultry, a little 
less water, and about the average of indigestible nutrients; it 
is about like the average in protein and richer than most in fat. 
Chicken (birds under one year of age) contains about the same 
proportion of refuse as fowl, noticeably more water and slightly 
less indigestible nutrients. It contains about the average amount 
of protein, but is poor in fat and has a correspondingly low fuel 
value. Capon has about the same proportions of ingredients 
as fowl. Turkey has comparatively little water and indigest- 
ible nutrients, and is rich in both protein and fat. Guinea-hen 
contains large proportions of refuse and water, is rich in pro- 
tein but poor in fat. | 
The poultry game-birds, pheasants and quail, contain rather 
small percentages of refuse, large amounts of water, and small 
proportions of indigestible nutrients; they are rich in protein 
and poor in fat. | 
Curiously enough, squabs, as the young of pigeon are called, 
differ from the average composition of poultry reversely from 
pigeon; where they are poor, pigeons are rich, and vice versa. 
Squabs contain more refuse and less water than the average 
poultry, have a high percentage of indigestible nutrients, are 
rich in protein and poor in fat. On the other hand pigeons 
contain little refuse, large amounts of water, comparatively 
little of indigestible nutrients, a good deal of protein and com-. 
paratively little fat. 

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