Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-28
Land a Safe Investment.

Whenever people begin to talk of
hard times and capital becomes timid
improved farm lands come into good
demand. This has been illustrated once
more since the financial furry of last
fail, as more people are now looking
for real estate investments than at
this time last year.
There will be no depreciation, there
fore, in farm values this season, and
probably some advance will be noted
People know that well located real es-
tate is as safe d. the government 1t.
self.
The question whether farming pays
much or little is not considered when
men and women are looking for abso-
lutcly sound investments. The land is
always there. 1t can neither be sto-
len nor burned. With a rapidly de-
veloping population the time is not far
OF when every acre of unoccupied land
in the United States will be wanted at
more than Is asked for 1t to-day.
A truth which can easily be demon.
strated is that farm land is too cheap
1t almost invariably goes at the mini
mum value. Government homesteads
and other low-priced land in the West
account for the low prices in the East
This is passing condition. In fact,
the whole nation comprehends to-day
that the area of unreasonably cheap
farms is near the end.
Feeding Poultry by Machinery.
Feeding and fattening poultry by
machinery! Well. what next? Re
sponsible for this latest usurpation OF
natures functions are the French
those people who are past masters in
every thing having to do with the
preparation and serving of food-and
the enjoyment of it, too.
Although the idea of feeding poultry
by machinery hasn't been long ON these
shores, several hundred persons are
engaged in TIC business, and nearly q
million dollars is invested. Machine
fattened poultry is to be found in ev-
cry important market of the land
While the idea, as stated before, came
from France, Americans, with their
usual cleverness In adopting the prod.
ucts of other brains, have improved
upon the mechanical agencies.
A sheet metal tank or bucket, hold
ing about four gallons Of food and
standing upon three legs, forms the
upper part of the American machine
A rubber tube about a foot long runs
from the receptacle; 1t is about the
size of ones thumb when it is attach
ed to the machine and tapers to the
size OF little finger at the other end
Operated by the foot, treedle is con-
nected with little sliding door in the
bottom Of the bucket. When this door
is opened by movement of the treadle
a quantity of food Is forced through
the tube and down the fowls throat.
When one wishes to feed fowl he
seizes it by the legs, opens It's bill and
pushes the rubber tube down it's throat
until the nozzle nearly reaches the crop
Then he works the treadle, forcing
food down the fowls throat until the
crop is flied. Some operators are 80
expert that they can feed 400 chick
ems an hour with the machine.
1t is claimed on behalf of the ma.
chine that poultry will fatten in half
the time If fed this way, ard that the
meat will have better flavor. The
fowl kept stuffed all the time, regard
less of its natural appetite, is bound
to get fat.
Most of the fatteners feed a mixture
of corn meal, oat meal and milk. 1t
must be soft enough to pass readily
through the rubber tube of the feeder.
1t is asserted that feeding by machin-
cry is not cruel and that chicken
soon learns to open its bill voluntarily
for the nozzle.