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Show FRENCH METHOD OF FEEDING Food I Forced Down Throats of Geese by Use of Stick and Tube-Kept Tube-Kept In Cages. In France the geese which are Intended In-tended to supply the main Ingredient of the delicacy "pate de fols gras aux truffes" (goose-liver paHte with truffles), truf-fles), are kept confined In narrow cage. The slightest movement Is thus prevented, and food Is forced down their throats, often with nothing noth-ing more than a tube and stick. In order or-der to produce an extraordinary development de-velopment of tho liver, says tho Popular Popu-lar Mechanics. The drawing Illustrate a newly devised de-vised Instrument for this mechanical treatment, whiih In a measure alleviates alle-viates the Inhumanity of the forced feeding. In that It does not Injure the throat or prevent breathing. It consists con-sists of a funnel of galvanized Iron, n French Method of Feeding. provided with a piston which cannot protrude beyond tu end of the tube. At the lower end of the galvanized Iron tubing Is a section of rubber tubing. Washing Dirty Egg. If annoying, perhaps, Jut about upper time to have to stop to wsh dirty eggs when the hens breaks one, but this is a task that must not b put off until tomorrow. |
