POULTRT AS FOOD.

Bush Advocate, Volume XVI, Issue 582, 5 December 1904, Page 2

POULTRT AS FOOD.

Poultry is somewhat more digestible than beef or mutton, but only very little. The difference in digestibility between the various kinds of poultry probably depends on the amount of fat contained, the fatter sorts being least easily digested. Tenderness of fibre may have something to do with both ease and thoroughness of digestion, iind, if so, young birds are much more easily digested than old, and the lees-used muscles of the chicken, such as the areast, moro so than the much-used muscular tissues of the leg. Similarly, white-fleshed birds may be more easily digested than dark-fleshed, because the fibres of their flesh are less closely eetj but this is not fully proved. Indeed, very little is known concerning this subject, and that little seems to indicate that the differences in thoroughness of digestion are very slight, and that cooking has much more to do with the digestibility of birds than these slight differences in composition and texture.— Parmer's Bulletin. MILK MAKES BEAUTS'. The use of hot milk is of greater benefit to tne complexion: than women imagine until it has been given a good trial. A few years ago an actress was alleged to owe her exquisite skin to milk "baths. She was said to order milk for bathing purposes by the gallon, and to plunge into a tubfut of it night and morning. If she did she had a wise head upon her pretty shoulders, for nothing w- so efficacious to keep the skin in good, condition as hot milk. A wonian who has bathed her face ;in it night and morning for several months says her skin is fresher and clearer than it had been for many years.