SUMMER FEEDING Av 
Semi-solid Buttermilk. Ifa good range 
is furnished it will not be necessary to give 
any other form of green feed. If the range 
is somewhat scanty, or, in other words, if 
the grass is pretty well eaten down, every 
effort should be made to use milk in some 
form. 
For the average commercial chicken man, 
or for the man who keeps only a few chickens, 
there is no milk product on the market which 
is more easily handled and which is lower 
in price than semi-solid buttermilk. It 
should be fed daily to chickens eight or ten 
weeks old at the rate of two pounds to every 
five hundred pounds of chickens. It should 
be fed on boards or in a trough, just as it 
comes from the barrel. It will not be neces- 
sary to dilute it with water. The chickens 
will eat it more readily than they will drink 
it if diluted with water, and the labor of 
feeding it is much less when it is fed as it 
comes from the barrel. 
Reducing Beef Scrap. If the semi-solid 
buttermilk is fed to the chickens at the rate 
given, the beef scraps in the dry-mash 
formula should be cut in two, or in other 
