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Show IT PAYS TO FATTEN POULTRY Agricultural Department of Oxford Academy Makes Handsome Profit on Small Flock. It pays handsomely to fatten poultry poul-try before killing. Last fall the agricultural agri-cultural department of Oxford academy, acad-emy, New York, bought a few small chickens for 57 cents each, fed hem 18 cents worth of milk and mash and said them three weeks later for $1.1!) each a gain of 02 cents. They gained one pound four ounces each, or 35 per cent, at a cost of 14 cents per each pound of gain. |