64 POULTRY FEEDING AND FATTENING 



chickens will enjoy picking out the inside, if the beet is 

 split from crown to root. If cooked, it can be cut or 

 chopped and mixed with the other steamed or cooked 

 food. — [J. L. Irwin, Nemaha County, Kan. 



Onions will quickly affect flavor of eggs or meat. 

 So will muskrats. After removing tlie pelts of some 

 that I caught one winter the carcasses were thrown 

 in a field not far from the barn, where the hens ranged 

 and fed on the meat. This produced such a musky 

 flavor in the eggs that afterward care was observed to 

 keep the dead rats out of the hens' reach. At a later 

 period I purchased a quarter of beef from a farmer 

 who, while fattening a number of steers, fed a large 

 quantity of turnips. These so tainted the meat that 

 it was decidedly distasteful, and when cooking there 

 was a pronounced smell of turnips. — [S., Schuylkill 

 County, Pa. 



Rice — While living in California, I was quite 

 largely engaged for about ten years in raising poultry 

 for market, both with incubators and with hens. I had 

 trouble with young chicks on account of more or less 

 diarrhea, sometimes but little, and again considerable, 

 but always some loss from it. Since coming to the 

 islands, we have not been in the business extensively, 

 but raise more or less each year. For three or four 

 weeks we feed on broken rice and milk. We never 

 have a case of diarrhea here or a sick chick, although 

 they have to be kept in close quarters on account o-f the 

 mongoose, but of course have to be kept clean, but are 

 ne\'er let outside of wire fence until fully grown. If 

 we had known the value of rice as a feed for starting 

 young chicks, when in the business in California, it 

 woTild have been several hundred dollars in our pockets, 

 if not thousands. — [I. S. Garnett, Hawaii. 



Nuts — When one has an oversupply of nuts, espe- 

 cially black walnuts and butternuts, they can be used 



