Show CHICKEN FACTORY IN BOSTON Mechanical Devices Displace Nature in tho Production of Broilers In one of the largest poultryproducing Places of tho East a large chickenraising plant has recently been Installed which la t probably the most perfect In tho world Tho entire plant Intact Is but ono vest machine each floor of which Is devoted to tho chickenproducing business On the top floor arc located the incubators in which the unhatched eggs aro plucod on a tray and subjected to a heat of about 00 degrees Beneath the triiv in which arc hatched about 1000 chickens n day arc the brooders and hire In a tem perature of about 30 tlogrcca tho chicks remain for twentyone days After bolns porn one dny feeding commences tho fare being millet groundoats and canary seed For tho llrst week they are red nvo tlmrs a day the nmount of foorl be ing Gradually although given loss often their diet being gradually changed to include the coarser grains By tho rapid forcing method of feodlnc adopted it takes only L week or two to bring tho chicken to a weight of two pounds The chicken Is then taken to tho floor below where a very limited space IB I al loJYcd XflC tUo tunnlnc around and ahoro a number of cramming machines arc located lo-cated The crowded pena on this floor are tho first and last glimpse the modern chicken catches of the world Into which It begins to fatten rapidly aa the cramming cram-ming machines force an abnormal qiinn tity of food don Its throat It takes from two to four wecksi to bring the weight of these chickens up to about nix pounds at which time they are exactly In shape for tho market They are then removed to the floor below where arc the guillotines and tho plucking machines Here they aro disposed dis-posed of more rapIdly than In any of the foregoing processes the killing and dressing dress-Ing being carried out with the greatest speed possible fio that the fowl may be plnccd In the packing barrel no nearly warm as possible and reach the market while perfectly fresh It is a surprising fact thnt tho products of thins establishment receive bettor favor at thq hands of ppnltrv buyers In the largo cities than does the oldfashioned farmfed product l The owners of tho plant expect to mako a fortune out of tholr enterprise nnd are really making money fnef already Doston correspondence correspond-ence Chicago Inter Ocean |