Brooder House at Hopland Stock Farm, California 



Value of Green Feed 



It is essential to the health of fowls, and if grown on the premises materially 

 reduces the food bill. . But its value in egg production is beyond debate. One of 

 the open secrets of successful poultry raising for eggs is plenty of green feed. 



It adds to the vigor and health of the flock by supplying variety and bulk, 

 and where regularly provided, keeps laying hens from eating too much concen- 

 trated food, which tends to cause over-fatness. It is one of the troubles of the 

 poultry grower over feeding by the use of finely ground rations. This is pre- 

 vented by the use of green forage, and in this climate it is easy to provide suc- 

 cessive crops of oats, wheat or barley for cutting, while an alfalfa patch for feed 

 according to the size of the farm or the flock is at once health and money in the 

 purse. There is no better egg food. 



In addition, kale, beets, spinach, rape, lettuce, cabbage, can be readily grown. 

 Mangels can be cooked and fed with the mash or split open and fed raw. Beets 

 and spinach can be planted in August, cut and fed in October, and cut again in 

 November in many parts of the State. 



The possibility of providing green feed all the year at slight cost will be 

 appreciated by every one who knows its value in egg production. 



Planning the Business 



Poultry raising is not simply "keeping a few hens." It is a business and must 

 be planned for, and the chief features of it decided upon in advance. A general 

 or special type of the business must be chosen and a "plant" of more or less 

 completeness and capacity sketched out. 



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