A POULTRY FATTENER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 8, 25 August 1911, Page 7

A POULTRY FATTENER.

POWDERED CHARCOAL

Charcoal tablets, as a cure for indigestion, have for many years been common remedy. It lias occurred co a farmer to lind out. what, effect charcoal would have upon animals of 'normal digestion. He took for his first experiment 18 geese and as many ducks. Dividing them into flocks he fed the first on ordinary food, the jccond had charcoal in small pieces, ivhera they could pick at it.; while the third had powdered charcoal mixed in their food in the proportion of one part of charcoal to four of meal. The fucks who got no charcoal gained 593 grams in a month, the two other .dassep gained 906 and 962, there be.ng little difference between them, chough a gain of more than 50 per •out over the ordinary feeding. But die geese showed startling results, flic gains in weight for the three lasses were 186 grams, 677 and 1242! In other words, the geese which had a ation of powdered charcoal gained ..early seven times as much weight is these without it. These experinsuts are too few to revolutionise \t once the industry of fattening of owls and animals for tlie xiiarkht. hit no one can predict what may not bo learned from the hint they give.