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Show TURKEYS FORCED TO EAT. Machinery Used to Stuff the Bird fot Market. In England tttrkoys are geuerall) sold according' to the rttlo of weight per pound, price per pound. That Is tu say, It a bird weighs twelve pounds. It Is sold at twenty-four cents pot pound; If Its weight Is fourteen pounds at 28 cents per pound, and sc on. Naturally, all breeders endeavo to make their turkeys as plump and heavy as possible before sending them to market. Systems ot fattening fatten-ing aro extensively carried on among poultry farmers, turkeys being put Into pens and fattened for a period varying from three to ten weeks either by hand or with machines, The machine mostly used for thli purpose couslsts of a brass nozzle-which nozzle-which Is Inserted In the mouth of tho bird attached to a piece of India rubber-tubing, and connected with n cy'-Inder. cy'-Inder. Ir. this cylinder Is a supply of liquid food, made of buckwheat or some other -.cal, tntlk, nnd a llttlo fat, anf It Is so arranged that when a pedsi Is pressed by the foot a portion of the food, varying according to tho stae of fattening for It Is Increased In quantity each day until the process Is completed Is Injected through the tube and nn.zle Into the bird's crop.--Stray Stories. Full of Tragic Meaning tl.e lines from . I. II. Simmons, of .i.it.Ia. Think what might havo (suited from his terrible cough If he had not taken the the medicine about which he writes: "1 had n fearful cotiuh, that (list in bod my night's rest. I tried evt'i.v thing, but nothing would relieve It, until 1 took Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, which completely cured me " Instantly tclleves and pcimancutly cures all throat and lung diseases', prevents urlpanil pneumonia. At. IMter Bros Drug Co. guaranteed; 50c and l in). Trial bottle fiee. |