Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1909-03-19
MONEY IN MILK-FED POULTRY
Flavors Improved in Chickens Thus Fed
Sell Readily.


Sell Readily.
Upon examining the bill of fare be.
fore ordering his dinner the wcll-mstcd
man will sean the list carefully in search
OF an article OF food which was entity
umhcard Of comparatively short time
ago. and that is milk. fed chicken.
AZ tine price of this dcicacy is always
higher than that charged for other po,,l.
try-no matter in what manner prepar-
rd-~ultry people everywhere will do
well to look into this matter and study
the methods of rainsiny chickens on
milk diet.
During the last few years thi, indus.
try. which mas grown to enormous pro-
PORTIONS has been controlled by the large
packing interests. where chickens are
prepared for market by Il process that
increases the weight from ~ to 80 per
cent. besides adding to the value of the
fowl from 80 to Is per cent.
As II result today on alt the menu
cards of cur first class hotels. rcstaur-
ants. passenger boats and dining cars
the milk fed chicken occupies promi.
nent place.
Upon inqiiring into the met hotls emf
ployed by the large packing concerns
which have derived such great profit
from their system ut milk feeding. it
was found to be II very simple arrange
ment and entailed Il very small expense.
An illinois man successfully tried the
experiment and gives the following nc.
count of his experience:
First Il pen was arranged. the bottom
of which was made of rounds an inch
and not measuring to exceed an inch
In INV .,f 1.n;,
\ drop hoard was then construn ted eight
inches below the bottom Of the coop az
before described.
\ small trough Was then made. the
same as would be used for feeding pigs
\ set Of hangers was made for it on the
front OF the coop. just high enough for
the chickc to eat out Of it comfortably.
Tine feed consists Of oatmeal. butter.
milk. beef tallow and yellow cornmeai.
This was fed to the chicks early in the
morning. giving them just what they
would eat and no more.
As soon as they We're through the
traugh was removed and the same pro-
cess followed ut noon and again ut )
O'Clock. or soon enough before dark so
the chickens would eat before going to
ronst.
y" water was given lurin. the time
they were on this feed. the period of
which lasted for fourteen days.
At the end of that time the chicks
were weighed. killed and dressed. and
this lot was found to have increased 20
per cent over what they weighed when
put in the coop fourteen days before.
There We're nine chickens in this coop,
~. feet wide AMI four feet long. with
ample head room: in fact this particular
coop was about four feet high
Each morning the drop board which
ual been constructed under the bottom
Of the coop was taken out and scrubbed.
with the result that the coop wa, kept
clean and fresh.
This added weight cost about 10 cents
PER pound and all of the food had been
purchased in Il small retail way. 50 that
when experiments are 10 he tried by one
desiring to laten il large mumbtr the
oatmeal can |" secured in barrels II, 3
cents per pound or less. while in our rx.
pertinent it cost ) cents per pound.
Tie "atmea' was mixed into IL Stop
quite wet. >ti,i Thick enough 81 the
| chickens coun! eat i, easily more in the
! form OF Il food thaa Il drink
1t Wa found that when it WAS too
thin they would not eat rs much ami
y
tablespoons of taliow to the gallon of
feed was the ratio in which it WAS mixed.
This urrc>>itated melting the tnll"w
in order t" have it mixed we'll. Two
! ordinary tracupfn!s of yellow cornmcar
to gallon OF the feed is the right pro-
| portion :" as t" keep the flesh i good
rich yellow. as otherwise il has white.
milky appearance.
The idea! eight of feeding is ~ to
-. pounds They take on flesh faster
and eat better and are much more sal
! able.
l!nwuNer. chickens wei.hin. SEVERAL
pounds are very desirable when prepared
in this way. Hotels find they are rx-
erpti"nally fine meat and are compara-
lively scarce As II result the, find
read, u,a'l,"t.
THESE chickens are nice and iui.v ,hc
ia, being equally distributed throughout
he fowl. and even the wing llii often
dc-p;seh piece. is rs Juicy rs amy par, %.
the fowl.
There is as much difier.nr, h' wrrn
! the two kinds of chickens. mil, fed and
regular rs between beef and veal