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POULTRY FOR EVERYBODY

(By "Cock-o'-the-North.)"

Another very (remarkable statevoient \xm made wihen speaking an the value of animal ifood by one ctf the sarnie gentlemen to whom I ail'lu died last week. He stated that he bad sent a j sample of dried blood ito the anent analyst, and tha/t he had received a reply giving tihe usual analysis of tlniis product. He thought that tJiey had' simply sent liLm the usual' analysis because they were pestered with so many simdiair requests. At any rate, not feeling satisfied, lie seaut a sample. over to Australia to be analysed', and .the request came back that it 'was of vky little use, as the cellulose had become too hardened' round the blood, thereby making it practically indigestible. The gentleman' making this state>ment is one conducting a poultry column, in this Dominion, and one would naturally thanik tihat he would at least study the subject for himself «s far as was possible, instead of making to his readers statements tli© correctness or otherwise of which, he is absolutely igjioirant of. It is such statememtsi as> tlhese, made by men: professing to 'be past maste of the profession of (poultry culture, tfliat do infinite mischief to the practical poultry man> or woman> with, limited education. Of course it may be advanced by those making these statements that they do not claim ito be past master®, uut if tho® is so they have no right to presume tto teach others, and still less to make statement® which are liaible to do harm in the way of depriving the poultry mam of an. extremely useful

aaid economical animal food. Now, readers, please remember tihat the statement made was that the cellulose around the blood was so hardened (that it mad© the blood indigcsrfiiib'le. Now, considerLnig the facity that there; is no celkrlos© to harden, readers may form a better idea of the rubbish. often* stated by would-be experts on tihe assumption that others are equally ignioramt with themselves, and therefore unable to refute them. Cellulose is tihe proximate primcipie oa- substance of which the permanent oell iwe-mbir'ane® of plants are always composed of. I treated shortly, some two years agio, of tli-is question dn< thie xuawke's Bay Herald, but I now intend to go fully into the. matter, to show readers the folly of such statements, as the one referred- to above. Since- the subject of feeding fowls ■has been made a subject of close study, it has- been discovered that fowls fed on a ration in which onefour tli the total protein was derived from amiimal source© laid better than 1 fowls receiving a (ration in. which all the protein was- of vegetable origin, and fowls- receiving a ration inwhich- one-third the total protein supplied was from animal' sources did' still better. -Now why was this so? It was. because, the protein, in vegetable's l i® contained in these tiny ■cellulose cells-, and is therefore difficult of digestion; the animal not being alble to maJte use of iit as quickly as .the animal whose food is wholly or partially animal food. Cows, horses, slheep and other herbivorous ianiimiailis release tlie protein from thfese cells- by the process of digestion a<nd assimilation into the blood, and the carnivorous animal by eating the herbivorous, animal assimilate® into its system, and profits by it much quicker than- tlie herbivorous animal' l . This> accounts for, the fact of herbivorous- animals j eating a much larger amount of food j for any given purpose than the carnivorous animal. At any rate, once the protein is released from the vegetable source from • which, all protein, is derived, ini the first place, it is no longer encased .in cellulose in any w,ay, or-itnf.othiea* there is l no cellulose attached to animal protean. This being the case, I should like to be told how hea.t has the power to harden; tihe . cell/ulose around l tlie lose comes frp-rii. Again, if cellulose were present, the aipplicaibion of. heat would turn it into istarch, ifor that is the effect jof lfe-at on- oefluloßes,,and therefore oair dried blood would be of a wliiitisttl colour -instead of brown and ,T>la«k,

It was iheld by some scribe in Australia that hiis fowls- 'lariid better without animal food, and were healthier than with it. The Hawkesbury College at onoe took up tlie matter to teat it (/though, it hais been' hundreds of times), and wrote 'at once to a friend' -of mine in Sydney (-a Mr C. B. T. Smiitlh) a.nd told him the fowls receiving no animal food would go. down, and tlhie<y are (so far) fulfilling what I said, and it is my optim-ion. itQia-t from 1 tlhis out- they will rapidly fair off. Dried blood oon/ta.ms 91 parts of dry matter. Chit of 1(H) of these, 84.8 are protein and 2.5 are f-vi, the rest being mineral asli. It will thus be. seen that it would be a shame to make poultry men cease using this- very valuable animal food to pander to the fads- of any crank in- existence.

I have used no other animal food for my bird's for years, and I guarantee that birds (a nock of say 400) of the wire strain will lay sis well for m? when using it, as for another iran- who uses animal food ot!r?r forms.

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10503, 15 December 1911, Page 3

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Tapeke kupu
889

POULTRY FOR EVERYBODY Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10503, 15 December 1911, Page 3

POULTRY FOR EVERYBODY Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10503, 15 December 1911, Page 3

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