Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05
NEW SCHEME TO
FATTEN CHICKENS
PARNELL'S PROPERTY TURNED
TO PRACTICAL USE
Inoongruous Law Being Enforced to
Punish Those Who Bet on the
Street and In the Shops.
Growth Of Munster Bank
BY Timothy J. oconnor
specIal cable to The Herald.

Special Gable to The Herald.
| DUBLIN, Aug 4.-Avondale, Mr..
ParnelPs old property, is being turned
into a chicken fattening institution.
Here about 1900 chickens are bought
weekly, kept on an average about
month and sold fat. These chickens
are reared in the district round about
and are brought in daily by the owners
at the rate of about 200 per day. When
brought in they correspond to stores in
cattle phraseology--tha is, they are
lean and are purchased for fattening.
Each bird is paid for in proportion to
its condition.
For the first twelve or fourteen days
the fowls are fed from little troughs in
front of their coups This food is very
sloppy and Is composed largely of oat-
meal, barley meal, skim or buttermilk,
with little tallow. The birds get as
much of this as they care to eat, and
as they get no exercise they lay on flesh
very fast, at least as long as their ap-
petite lasts. Whenever their food begins
to pail on them cramming is resorted
to. This may be carried out by two
methods. The food in the shape of
small balls may be forced into the crop
of the fowl by hand or it may be done
by machine in the state of porridge
pump, actuated by the foot of the per-
son in charge and fed with sloppy food
instead of water from a hopper above.
On the outlet of the pump there is about
foot and half of half-inch rubber
tubing. The attendant takes the bird
under his left arm, opens it's beak with
his right hand and inserts the tube
down to the crop This DONE he puts
his left hand on the crop while he holds
the pipe in position with the right He
then puts pressure on the pedal of the
machine and so forces food into the
crop of the bird till he feels it dstended
to a degree which from experience he
knows to be safe. If extra pressure was
used in filling the crop the bird would
be killed. The time occupied is much
less than it has taken to describe it,
the operation requiring only few Sec
onds. The fowls seem to enjoy taking
their food in this way, at least they
were all thrusting their necks through
the spartS in their anxiety to be fed.
The new railway between Rosslare
harbor and Waterford, which was for
mally opened by the lord lieutenant
of Ireland. has the longest viaduct in
Ireland, the new bridge across the
River Barrow before it's junction with
the SUR being 2131 feet between the
faces of the abutments. 1t consists of
thirteen fixed spans, with a swing span
over the river.
New Betting Law E
The betting prosecutions Just started
in Dublin illustrate the incongruous
condition of the law on the subject.
There are prosecutions for betting in
the street and for betting in the shop
and in both cases fines are imposed. 1t.
was plain that the defendants and pos
sibly the magistrate. regarded the fines
as kind of assessment of income tax
1Irt Nf
Drury, in one case, said that as the
defendant had been previously con-
victed he would fine him $25. Mr.. Friery
asked that the fine should be reduced
to SIS. as business was bad. Betting in
a shop is manifestly less Objectionable
than betting in the street. But it is
more profitable, so the fine was adjust
ed to $25 instead of SIS. There is the
further anomaly that what is a crime
in the street or the shop is perfectly
legal in the betting ring.
Munster Bank
The report and balance sheet of the
Munster and Leinster bank for the
half year shows that the bank continues
to make steady progress in all branches
of it's business. Deposits are higher by
$500 900 than in June, 1905, and their
total now amounts to the large figure
of $21. 100000. Discounts have increased
by $780, 900, showing that the needs or
it's customers have been literally met
and that the banks business in this di-
rection is also expanding. Cash and
Immediately convertible securities
amount to S9000,000, or over 40 per cent
of the deposits, while the reserve fund
has been increased by $55 900 during the
year and its total of $1.250,00O exceeds
the paid-up capital by $250,000. A divi-
dend of ~ per cent is recommended.
At the celebration at Belfast of the
battle of the Boyne w. H. H. Lyons
proposed the following resolution,
which was adopted and which shows
that the Ulster Orangemen are not as
yet satisfied with the present Liberal
government:
"That we declare once more our set
tied determination to maintain the in
tegrity of the legislative union and to
oppose all attempts at disruption,
whether directly by measure Of home
rule or indirectly by any scheme of
devoIution We regard the present
government, though having neither
claimed nor received any mandate from
the country in favor of home rule, as
hostile to the interests of the loyalistS
of ireland, and we impress upon all
Unionists the urgent need Of complete
organization to counteract the policy
of a government pandering to and
secretly in alliance with the enemies of
our country"