News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-04-18
FED BY MACHINERY.

Every French traveller in America
expresses surprise at the quality OF
poultry presented to HIM on even the
tables of the very rich.
Every American traveller in France is
equally surprised at the plumpness, deli
caoy of flavor, and general excellence OF
the poultry he finds there on the tables
of even the most ordinary restaurants.
The difference is not i'll the fowl them
selves, but in the treatment of them for
market. The raising of poultry i'll this
country, as q rule, looks toward the pro-
duction of race of fowl which will be
great egg producers. In France this is
not the case. There the raising of poul-
try is of itself an industry of very large
extent. Mr.. VIM. G. Williams, of
Olean, n. Y, who has resided and trav-
eled much in France, being somewhat of
chicken fancier, made thorough in
vestigation of the French methods of
raising poultry for the table. He disoov-
cred on returning home to America that
we had nothing here corresponding to
their system. O1r chicken farmers seem
to extend their business in the drec-
ton of incubators and other appliances,
which, when the fowles were once pro
duced, were fed in the ordinary way and
resulted in the ordinary fowl. Mr..
Williams determined to try the expert
ment of producing what he calls
"French fattened fowl" for the Ameri-
can market, and he told New York
Herald reporter that he had met with ex-
traOrdinary success.
He has reported a number of machines
which are common enough over there,
bnt are not duplicated here and has al
ready set up the necessary apparatus
to produce two or three hundred fowl
day.
The method is very peculiar. is new to
this country, and will be read with I'M
questionable interest by all chicken rails
ers. The chickens are sorted into ages
and weights and then placed in boxes,
each fowl having box or compartment
to itself. These boxes form, when
placed together around a cylinder,
huge roll set up on end, which reyolves
upon pivot at the slightest touch. One
of these rolls or cylinders, will hold
couple of hundred head of fowl.
Each chicken is fastened in the box in
but has ample play to move, scratch
sire. The temperature of the room in
which these machines are placed is kept
at the same degree constantly, and the
light is likewise regulated A part OF
the paraphernalia is an elevator which
is worked by hand, and may be moved
from place to place rs occasion requires.
This elevator or lift is so constructed as
to hold trough in which the food is
placed, and a man whose duty it is to
feed the chickens through small force
pump and pipe which arc attached to
the machine.
The chickens are fed three times
each day, and it is necessary for the
feeder to handle each chicken individu-
ally. Standing on the elevator at the
height of whatever row OF fowl he choos-
es to operate upon, he turns the cylinder,
and as each chicken comes opposite to
him grasps him by the head gently,
places small pipe leading to the force
pump in his mouth, with his foot moves
a peddle, and Immediately Mr.. Chicken
is filled up. The pumping apparatus is
so regulated as to enable the feeder to
give as much food to each chicken as he
may desire.