The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-09-13
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
Row Successful Farmers Operate This
Department of the Few
Hints as to the Care of Live Stock
and Poultry.
Dairy Notes.

Dairy Notes.
The feeding of whole corn to calves
Is recommended by a good many dairy
men that have tried it. When skim
milk is fed something will be useful
to balance it up and increase the eleL
ments of energy and heat. Calves util-
lie whole corn more fully than do
cows. Before they are a year old their
digestive habits are such that none Of
the corn is passed whole. But while
this is true, it is not advisable to feed
corn without limit. In fact too large
quantities Of corn might destroy the
possibilities of the future cow, by
creating a tendency to lay on fat.
.
Some are now suggesting that the
best way to control the sale of oleo-
margarine is to compel the manufact-
urers and retailers of it to put it up in
one and two-pound packages. This is
in line with the suggestion that Mr..
J. H. Monrad has often made that oleo-
tain shape, as oval, as is done now in
some foreign countries. Either Of
these methods might prove effective,
but it is barely possible that the courts
would declare them unconstitutional.
1t must be remembered that the for
eign countries that have such laws
are not governed by constitutions like
the ones under which we live, and be-
cause a law is constitutional in Eu-
rope is no sign that it would be equally
so here.
The more personalities are investi-
gated the more Objectionable they are
found. In England, as well as in
America, they are being looked after.
From things that have come to light
1t cannot be doubted that during the
last few years especially the use o.
p~reservatives in milk, rea and Other
food products has caused a very large
amount of sickness and many deaths
especially among invalids and chill
dren. Last year the British parlia
ment appointed a committee to in
vestigate the use of preservatives il
food. It's Investigations have brough
to light a. good many things of inter
est. One distinguished physician sal
that he had been experimenting wit
boric acid on himself and friends. L
small quantities the kidneys could dis
pose of it, but it had a tendency to &C
emulate. He used it in larger quar-
titles on himself and it had the effeC
of causing a loss of appetite and lass
tude. 1t should never be used in mill
as it especially affects the digestiv
powers of weak children and babies
DR.. Voelcker, consulting chemist to tn
Royal Agricultural Society of Ems
land said that boric acid should nc
be used il milk and cream. DR.. Wa
ford, health officer of Cardiff, said thu
boric acid is injurious in the ~quantitie
in which it is used in milk. DR.. Hi
health officer of Birmingham, sal
that the people that put boric acid
milk know nothing of it's medicin;
properties. 1t is a drug and require
regulation. The use OF boric acid
being discarded and a more dangerol
chemical put in it's place-formald'
- hyde. This latter hardens the album
inous matter in the food. DR.. Came
- IN, health officer of Leeds, said thi
:. for some years diarrhoea among chi
- dren had been on the increase
=. Leeds, and this was probably due
" the use of chemicals in milk, as son
Of these personalities have the pro
erty of inducing such a condition. Z
Mann, health officer for Mancheste
rs said that no pr~eservatives of any XII
or should be permitted in milk. Reade
20 of the Farmers Review will rememb
that boric acid is one of the least o
he jectionable pr~eservatives. In Englal
h. it has been found that several more i
of furious drugs are being employed. l
at vestigations further showed that
~ matter how harmful the preservati
ho might be, prosecutions are practical
impossible under any law that pr
hibited injurious drugs, as the man
facturers could always find some phi
stefan that would go into court a.
say that such drugs are harmless.
K Poultry Notes.
The cheapest food for poultry is I
OF always the best. In fact on the ore
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