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soft with skim milk in which beef suet has 

 been boiled. Suet is only about 6 cents a 

 pound. Half a pound chopped fine is suffi- 

 cient for two quarts of milk. Simmer for 

 fifteen minutes. Feed in V-shaped troughs 

 as much as the birds will eat in fifteen min- 

 utes. It must not be allowed to stand be- 

 fore them continually, or they will become 

 satiated. It was an old Frenchman who 

 gave me this hint about suet, which is excel- 

 lent, making the flesh deliciously tender and 

 juicy. 



The effect of food on flavor has been set 

 forth as most important in the New York 

 Market Journal. They call poultrymen's at- 

 tention to the fact that the exquisite flavor of 

 the canvasback duck is due to the wild celery 

 it feeds upon. The delicious Congo chick- 

 ens owe their superior excellence to the pine- 

 apples they eat. The grouse meat of the far 

 Western plains is aromatic with the wild sage. 



The feeding for mere weight or size will, in 

 the near future, give place to the higher art 



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