The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-02-28
STUFFlNG LIVE HENS.
an Automatic Chicken Feeder Which Inn
parts Any Flavor or Color.

kn Automatic Chicken Feeder Which Inn
parts Any Flavor or Color.
The curious and envious competi.
tors of Massachusetts, avenue produce
dealer may now turn in and adver-
tise that they have the latest and
most delicious poultry that the Amer
lean market affords. They have dis
covered the secret which has hereto
fore enabled their competitors to mo-
nopolize these claims. And SO has the
reporter who had often remarked the
fat and Overgrown appearance of the
fowls which lazily strut in the dealers
side yard or adorn the frontispiece of
his place of business
Twice daily the fowls arc driven
into a shed on the premises. From
this they always emerge stuffed until
their hides will hardly hold them.
Now, a hen is much like q monkey,
In that it has false and true stom-
ach. A monkey will eat voraciously
for hours, filling up q paunch in his
neck. At his leisure he draws from
this sack and masticates his food.
A hen will fill her craw, and when
that is done she is satisfied. A mon
key never gets enough to eat, but a
chicken will often leave portion Of
its food untouched. The secret of fat
tening chickens is to induce them to
eat more than they want This is not
done by offering extra inducements in
the way of superior viands. 1t is done
scientifically by force.
In the shed in question is contriv-
ance that might be taken for an in
fernal machine, patent ballot box or
an automatic corn shelter. But it is
none of these. 1t is a chicken feeder.
An unsuspecting fowl isdriven on a
trap door. The level floor folds up
and incloses her, except at the top. A
device not unlike q baseball mask
swoops down and completes her i'm
prisonment
An operator then comes forward,
puts the hen in straight jacket that
stretches the gallinaceous neck and
holds the head erect, mouth open, beak
pointed toward the ceiling.
touched. It sets in motion light me-
tallic arm acting as q lever. Starting
from box overhead it descends to the
open beak of the fowl, drops in a small
quantity of prepared food and forces
it far down into the throat.
This operation is repeated until the
hen is ''chock full" An apparatus
may also be attached by which liquid
food may be put into the bird. STUFF
fng stupef1es bird, but it does not in
terfere with the workings Of its diges-
tive apparatus.
Birds fattened by the stuffing pro-
cess" said the manager of this appa-
ratus. ''may actually be made to or
| der. We can vary the food so as to
produce the desired flavor. The foods
are prepared to suit the demands of our
patrons. BY fattening bird in ten
days or less it is made very tender, as
all the new flesh is the product of rich,
clean food, and is not toughened by
age or exercise"
DO you mean to say that you can
control the question of the quality OF
the birds hesh9"
Certainly; that is the glory of this
method. We can impart a dainty pork
flavor, mingle the extract of bustarC
with the delicious cream of quail OIL
toast, throw a touch Of mint or celery
into the meat, or initiate the dellca
cies of reed bird, canvasback ducks OF
frog hams. Besides, we can make the
meat black or white, according as We
want to represent delicate white flesh
or tho dark meats of wild fowl. o
course, prepared chicken like this Il
worth more in the pea green marke
than the ordinary barn yard chant
cleer We can also feed turkeys
and ducks to good advantage, but W.
have had the best results with chick
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