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Show TURKEYS FORCED TO EAT. Machinery Used to Stuff the Birds for Market. In England turkeys nio generally Bold according to the rule of weight per pound, price per pound. That Is to say, If a bird weighs twelve pounds, It Is sold at twenty-four cents per pound; if Its weight is fourteen pounds at 28 cents per pound, and so on. Naturally, all breeders endeavor to mako their turkeys ns plump and heavy as possible before sending them to market. Systems of fattening fatten-ing nro extensively carried on among poultry farmers, turkeys being put into pens and fattened for n period varying from three to ten weeks, either hy hand or with machines. The machine mostly used for thlf purpose consists of a brnss nozzle which Is Inserted In the mouth of the bird attached to a piece of India rubber rub-ber tubing, and connected with a cy'-Inder. cy'-Inder. In this cylinder Is n supply of liquid food, made of buckwheat or some other men), milk, and a little fat, anC It Is so arranged that when a pedal Is pressed by the foot a portion of the food, varying according to tho stage of fnttculng for It Is Increased In quantity each day until the process Ik completed Is Injected tluough the tube and nozzle Into tho bird's crop. Stray Stories. |