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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



177 



POULTRY 



Summer Feeding 



J. H. Callender, Peterboro, Ont. 



Summer feeding of poultry is apt to be 

 allowed to take care of itself, rather more 

 than during the winter months, because it 

 seems to have become a simple matter. The 

 necessity for providing the fowls with every 

 item of their diet when housed up closely, 

 keeps the attendant watchful all the time, 

 and often this is the season when the best 

 results are obtained. 



When spring opens up, however, the close 

 attention is relaxed, until one naturally 

 falls into a careless haphazard way of feed- 

 ing the birds. Possibly, where free range 

 is provided this method might be followed 

 without noticeable evils resulting. But the 

 penned up city flock is no better situated 

 in relation to foraging ground than it 

 was in the winter. 



Many poultry yards in the city are just 

 as small a corner as the owner feels like 

 sparing from his little garden, and the 

 chicks are kept confined closely to keep 

 them within bounds also. These small spots 

 have long since forgotten how to produce 

 grassi or other green feed. How necessary 

 then to be just as careful with the summer 

 feeding as we are in winter. 



Make the feeding ration a varied on<'. 



grain of some kind, meat of some kind, and 

 green food of some kind, with lots of fresh 

 clean water. 



PREPARING GREEN FOOD 



For the benefit of those who may not 

 have learned the method of supplying green 

 food by sprouting oats, not only doing this, 

 tut increasing the bulk of the fold, the 

 following- directions might be useful : 



Soak the oats for twenty-four hours anJ 

 tiien turn them into a box or basket which 

 will not hold water. Moisten the oats 

 night aL'd morning, turning them over witn 

 the hand until the sprouts appear. They 

 will very soon throw out roots if set in a 

 warm place near the stove. When this 

 happens spread them out about an inch 

 thick en trays of any kind that are easiest 



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