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Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12766, 7 February 1910, Page 1

! It is said that chalk was always \ used in the old days by those who fat- j tened calves for the London market, j Chalk is uniformly placed in lumps in \ the corner of the calves' nens with a = view to render the veal white, and though this effect should not be clearly ; ascertained, still the practice may be ' justified as contributing to the health of the calf by correcting that strong acid which, though common to the young of all animals, seems to be peculiarly powerful in the stomach of the calf. Chalk was also used in fattening lambs for market. Mr Ducket, who farmed near Chichester, used to send about five hundred lambs to Smithfield every year. He fattened them on milk, chalk, and straw, the chalk tending to make the flesh white, a point to which the butchers attached such importance that they would scarcely buy any lamb if %h& colour were not white.