. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. \y FATTENING COOPS. The coop should be so arranged as to afford good ventilation without draught, and to bekept partially dark, with but httle room for moving about much. The times for feedingshould be regular, and the fowls given all they will eat. Corn meal made into a thick mush,thoroughly cooked, and fed cold, is excellent for fattening. A little corn may also be excellent food for fattening fowls, whether old or young, is equal quanti
. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. \y FATTENING COOPS. The coop should be so arranged as to afford good ventilation without draught, and to bekept partially dark, with but httle room for moving about much. The times for feedingshould be regular, and the fowls given all they will eat. Corn meal made into a thick mush,thoroughly cooked, and fed cold, is excellent for fattening. A little corn may also be excellent food for fattening fowls, whether old or young, is equal quantities of barleymeal and com meal scalded and fed warm. Fresh food should be given at each time of feed-ing, and only just what they will eat up clean. Keep clean water by them constantly, alsogravel. Feed aU they will eat, then darken the coop until the next regular time for of fat meat will also hasten the fattening process. By carefully watching, the proper time for sending them to market will be determined,which will be in from fifteen to twenty days. When the proper point in the fattening processis reached, they should be mar
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