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Poultry, Fattening of, for the Table

They should be kept clean, warm, and dry. For their food, mix oat and peas-meal with mashed potatoes, and a little kitchen-stuff. Have their food always fresh and plentiful, but do not cram them. Those who value colour as much as quality sometimes fatten fowls on rice swelled in sweet, skimmed milk. On the Continent they are fattened on barley-meal with milk, or on buckwheat, and the flavour is excellent. Young pullets are used at any age.