CHAPTER XXX 



SUPPLYING GREEN FOODS 



A PROBLEM that confronts, or should confront, 

 every poultry raiser is how to supply the flock with 

 green food all the year around. The amateur will 

 ask: "How am I going to supply my birds with 

 green food in the dead of winter?" The answer is 

 that there is not a raiser of poultry, no matter where 

 located, who cannot produce green food during every 

 season in the year. 



In summer green food can be supplied with 

 scarcely any exertion. If there is room enough to 

 raise poultry there is also room enough to raise 

 greens. The succulent juices of green foods promote 

 digestion, and good digestion means healthy fowls, 

 while healthy fowls mean productive and profitable 

 fowls. Hens must have these succulent juices in 

 sufficient quantities in order to produce a creditable 

 number of eggs. Green food is as much a neces- 

 sity to fowls as oil is to machinery. You can damage 

 your flock of poultry as much by the omission of 

 green food as you can damage machinery by not 

 supplying the proper amount of oil. 



During the spring, lawn clippings, especially those 

 that contain clover, are very good, and are easily 



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