Skim Milk for Poultry. 



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In continuation of the experiment on the value of skim 



milk as a food for poultry, which is 

 Skim Milk asa • T , n _ ,. r , , 



Food for Poultry, reported m the Journal for March last, 



a further test was made at the Indiana 

 Experiment Station during the past summer. The test, 

 which lasted six weeks, was made with two lots, each com- 

 posed of Plymouth Rock and Houdan chickens. They were 

 fed three times a day, the food consisting of maize meal, 

 shorts, and ground oats, mixed in equal proportions, together 

 with rape, cabbage, and lettuce. Lot 2 also received skim 

 milk ad libitum. This lot ate rather more grain, but showed 

 in the six weeks a gain of 14 § lbs. in weight as compared with 

 7 J lbs. increase in Lot r, and it is considered that the effect of 

 the addition of skim milk to the ration is to increase the 

 profit by securing a greater return from the other foods given, 

 especially when the chickens are young and confined in pens 

 or small yards. 



The Board of Agriculture have issue a noticed drawing 

 the attention of persons desirous of 



Importation 



of Dogs importing dogs into Hong Kong to the 

 into Hong Kong. p rov j s j ons Q f a Notification issued by the 



Government of that Colony on the 21st March, 1899. Im- 

 ported dogs will only be allowed to land in the Colony (a) on 

 production of a certificate from a veterinary surgeon, or a 

 Medical Officer of Health, or a British Consul, that no case of 

 rabies has been known to occur in any district in which the 

 dog has been kept for the six months prior to the date of 

 shipment, and (b) a statutory declaration by the captain of 

 the vessel (or by the importer if he has travelled with the 

 dog) that no case of rabies occurred on board during the 

 voyage. In default of these two certificates, the dog will be 

 kept in quarantine for a period of three months from the date 

 of importation at the expense of the owner. Upon the pro- 

 duction of the two certificates, or upon the expiration of the 

 quarantine, a licence and a badge will be issued, and any dog 

 permitted to land or found at large without such badge will 

 be destroyed. 



* Vol. V., No. 4,/. 507. 



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