. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 22 BULLETIN- 1350, TJ. S. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTUEE for the purpose of determining the value of the oil as a preservative and whether or not it is palatable to the foxes. Dried and smoked fish has the advantage over other feeds that it can be fed without any further preparation and does not freeze in winter. Some ranchers, however, cook it in mushes. It is essential that all salt fish be soaked in running water for a period of five days to a week before being used. (Fig. 23.) It can then be given to the foxes without f
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 22 BULLETIN- 1350, TJ. S. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTUEE for the purpose of determining the value of the oil as a preservative and whether or not it is palatable to the foxes. Dried and smoked fish has the advantage over other feeds that it can be fed without any further preparation and does not freeze in winter. Some ranchers, however, cook it in mushes. It is essential that all salt fish be soaked in running water for a period of five days to a week before being used. (Fig. 23.) It can then be given to the foxes without further preparation, or be cooked in mushes. All mushes fed to foxes are prepared along one general line. The chief ingredient is generally fish in one form or another. This is boiled for a time, and then there is added rice, finely ground wheat, or rolled oats. All of these cereals may be used, but one is sufficient. Chopped vegetables, such as potatoes, turnips, or mangels, may be added and the whole boiled until the cereals and vegetables are. B24GS8 Fig. 22.—Fish being dried in the sun for storing for winter use thoroughly cooked. Whale, seal, or fish oil is sometimes added and thoroughly mixed in. This forms a reasonably thick mush. The relative proportions of the various ingredients are roughly as fol- lows : Per cent Msh 40 Cereals 25 Vegetables : 25 Oil 10 Feed can be cooked in large kettles over an open fireplace or in the double-boiler manner. Although it cooks more quickly in ket- tles, there is danger of burning it. The use of a double boiler, though slower, prevents this. To simplify the process some silver- fox ranchers use a steam-pressure cooker. Where this is prac- ticable, it would be entirely satisfactory for the blue-fox rancher also. A number of kinds of fox biscuits can be purchased, but analyses have shown that the majority are deficient in the needed mineral. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digital
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