Farm Notes.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4423, 12 June 1909, Page 4

Farm Notes.

CEDING MILK TO FOWLS. milk is excellent for the fowls, Eva rule is better to feed than e milk. Whole milk containing ream puts on fat, while skim milk nearly all of the nitrogenous mala left, which are much better for tevelopment of the good egg pros Whole milk is r for the iin the fattening pen.

| feeding milk care should be taken lilt sweet. It should be allowed to stand so as to be* e sour and befouled by the birds. B the fowls only an amount that pill consume quickly. It is be'to feed only a lit'le than to keep over-supply before them at all U. They will relish it much betand it will do them more good, owls and other animals are like

lons in that respect, and often will relish food that is before them at times, except the grains. Soft or [id food kept before the fowls at all ps changes its character when ex[d to the air and Bummer beat, ar d ill not be digestible. This is where »y people make a mistakp, and b poor success in feeding milk and pr soft foods.

ottage cheese made from sweet s ana fed to the birds before it been allowed to sour makes an pllent addition to the ration of pulintended for the laying pen. pe the milk on the stove and beat 11 it curds. Drain off the water, feed the material remaining to fowls. If made fresh each time fowls will relish it. Many sucful breeders feed this to young |ks, './ •