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palatable. Peanut meal and the four oil cake meals, 

 linseed oil cake meal, cocoanut oil cake meal, cotton 

 seed meal and soy bean meal, are all very rich in 

 protein and are used in the dry mash in addition to 

 the animal food when a forcing ration is required 

 and at molting time, but they are too expensive to 

 be used in large quantities and are so rich in oil 

 that they affect the bowels unless used with great 

 care. 



Animal Foods 



Fresh meat is the best of all animal foods. Some- 

 times it can be had in the form of green cut bone 

 or pluck cheaply enough to supply all the animal 

 part of the ration, but usually this is impossible, 

 and feeders are forced to depend on beef -scrap, one 

 of the by-products of the big meat packing estab- 

 lishments, and fish scrap. Beef scrap contains a 

 very large amount of protein and is therefore gen- 

 erally used in the mash to balance the grain part of 

 the ration. Fish scrap has recently come into use 

 as a substitute for beef scrap and is used with it in 

 the mash, but does not altogether take its place. 



Much of the beef scrap on the market is not fresh. 

 The only way to find out whether it is fresh or not 

 is to pour boiling water over it. If it gives out a 

 good meaty odor, it is good. 



Milk, in the form of skim milk, clabbered milk or 

 cottage cheese, is the best animal food there is for 

 poultry. The clabbered milk is particularly good 

 for young chicks and is said to prevent the multi- 

 plication of bacteria in their intestines. Where 

 enough milk can be had, and enough is all the fowls 

 will eat, no other animal food is needed. 



Green Feed 

 The importance of green feed can hardly be over- 



