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Show lAI 1 LllfliU New Treatment, as Tested Test-ed by Government, Is Great Success Washington, Sept. '13. "Milk or beef broth three times a day," is the prescription the department of agriculture agri-culture offers as the b'est for the fattening fat-tening of chickens. The cost of this treatment, the department finds after an investigation, is .9.9 cents per pound of gain for1 the "average cost of feed and labor for a large lot of poultry, the feed alone costing 7.10 cents. From 14 to 17 days arc required re-quired for successful treatment The bureau of animal industry has just issued a bulletin on tho subject, giving complete d.-Ua on tho feeding of 100,000 birds. |