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cream on the sides, I skimmed Bome and placed in a 

 dish. They ate it all eagerly, although they were well- 

 fed chicks, and subsequent feedings convinced me that 

 it formed a valuable addition to their diet. On cooking, 

 their flesh was exceedingly sweet and tender, and in 

 no way had an oily taste, which many might raise as a 

 possible objection. Doubtless if fowls are kept in close 

 confinement and given little else but this waste cream, 

 a characteristic oily flavor to their flesh might result. 

 As it was waste matter that cost nothing, I considered 

 its utilization in this direction a most profitable one. 

 As is generally known in cheese manufacturing districts, 

 all of the cream from whole milk cannot be worked into 

 full stock cheese. It is this small per cent of unavoid- 

 able waste, rising in the whey tub and either going to 

 the hogs, or as a rendered product being utilized as 

 cheese dressing, that I recommend all who can to try 

 on growing chicks. — [Gr. E. Newell. 



Skimmilk — One hundred pounds of skimmilk will 

 make as many pounds of eggs or poultry as it will of 

 pork or veal. With me the hen is the only variety of 

 fowl that will use skimmilk. Geese and turkeys won't - 

 touch it. — [M. L. B., Vermont. 



Bulhj Food — Fowls need bulky food. For not 

 only are bulky foods needed for the special forms of 

 nutriment they contain, but to distend the crop and 

 enable the fowls the better to obtain the nutriment 

 from more condensed foods. Such foods as finely cut 

 grass, clover and the like have a value greater than 

 their analysis would indicate. Fed upon such foods 

 in connection with more condensed articles of diet, 

 fowls seldom contract the bad habit of feather pulling. 

 This habit seems to be due to two causes : lack of 

 animal matter and lack of bulky food. Given these 

 two elements and feather pulling would hardly be 

 known, unless it was introduced into the flock through 



