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Show MILK FED TO THE CHICKENS Liquid Contains All That Beef Scraps and, Green Cut Bones Do, But in Diluted Form. The most successful poultrymen feed some kind of animal food to their chickens of all ages and conditions. condi-tions. In the wild state birds secure both vegetable and animal foods. Bugs and worms supply the animal food, and seeds and other vegetable growth the vegetable food. The animal portions of the foods is always a necessity for normal maturity and good egg laying. So essential is animal matter in the poultry feeds that the packing firms manufacture and sell large quantities of prepared beef scraps and ground bone, which are sold very widely over the country. Those who use them find that it pays very well. It has been found both experimentally and by practical tests that sweet milk, sour milk, buttermilk in fact, milk in any form contains all the elements found in other forms of animal matter. mat-ter. Milk contains all that beef scraps and green cut bone does, but in a more diluted form, and it is highly digestible, and no digestive troubles arise from either old or young chickens chick-ens consuming large quantities of 'it. Every one who keeps cows and poultry on the same farm will find it profitable to reserve all the milk for feeding the flock, and dispose only of I butter fat. It is the best animal food that can be given to them. Give all the chickens all the milk they will drink. It will do them no harm. |