Show RW PROPER TIME fro TO FlATTEN FATTEN POULTRY Prepared by Unitt Department ot Agriculture Early autumn is the time poultry raisers will u usually find advantageous a to fatten nn and dIspose of surplus cockerels cock cock- ns as well as early batched hatche pullets of n a quality not d desired In the lock flock ot of wInter layers Market 1 poultry prIces are lIle usually hIghest just before Th in and Christmas Another er a advantage In selling surplus stock fairly early In the season Is found In Inthe the s in saving or of considerable le foo food ma- ma Dr M. M l. l A. A Jull poultry husbandman United States Department ot of ture titre as a fattening rl 11 n a soft mash measured hy by weight composed of corn four parts oatmeal ur two part parta two parts and beef crap one olle part The ground grain should be mixed thoroughly and mol wIth wilt sour skin milk or buttermilk Milk Is excellent In fat fat- toning telling mixtures and about two pounds a 0 quart ot of milk Is use used to each pound of mash Care should be taken not to feed the bIrds too much during the early part ot of the fattening period pelio For the first few days das of this diet Iet feed lightly three times a day duy For the rest of the period perIo give the birds all they the wIll eat three times a day but do not I leave neIt n e It before then them A pound four cockerel should a pound In in two Four pounds ot of tie grain ration may produce a pound gait gain Experienced Experience fa keep poultry on the fattening feed for foras foras as lon long us as three e weeks hut but in moss commercial fattenIng plants the birds are fattened for from seven se to ten tell days a s There Is often n a difference or of I. I 5 cents a pound between time the market price ot of this and plump birds However low How ever farmers In ninny ny parts of the country countr may muy not find such advantageous advantage nd rius ous marketing und and the prices received may not pay for the expense und and bother of fattening th the birds In such cases It may prove uro wisest to sell direct with no attempt to fatten the fowls Mane such birds br are bought nt at the markets by fatten fatten- n. n ers and conditioned an and fattened for resale |