1090 



EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



account is given of raising and marketing poultry in Belgium. When about 3 

 months old the chickens are confined in coops and fed ground buckwheat, mixed with 

 milk, morning and afternoon, and at noon milk or milk and water. If the fowls 

 refuse the food, they are not iorced to eat, but are removed from the coop and killed, 

 as they grow thin otherwise and lose market value. The fowls are generally kept in 

 the fattening coops from 4 to 5 weeks. 



DAIRY FARMING— DAIRYING. 



The water content of butter, B. Martiny (Landw. Jahrb.,27{1898), 



JVo. 6, pp. 773-963). — This is a very extensive compilation of analytical 

 work bearing on the water content of batter in different countries. The 

 work done at the Wisconsin, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut 

 stations is included. Data for 20,700 analyses are brought together 

 and classified by countries and in various other ways. A summary of 

 the range and average water content for different kinds of butter is 

 given as follows: 



Summary of water content of butter. 



For fresh dairy and creamery butter the range and average of the 

 water content are given by countries as follows: 



Water content of dairy and creamery butter from different countries. 



