63 POULTRY FEEDIXG AND FATTENING 



some vicious inclivichial ^vliicli first contracted 'it 

 througli lac-li of tliese forms of food Such foods will 

 frequently put a stop to tlie habit after it has been 

 contracted. — [H. S. Baljcoclc, Providence Coirnty, E. I.. 



Green Feed — Its value in abundance for laying 

 hens is strikingly shown in an investigation made by 

 the West Virginia experiment station. Forty Wliite 

 Leghorn hens and four cocks were divided into two 

 similar flocks and placed in two houses, side by side, 

 the middle of July. Both flocks were allowed runs 

 fifteen feet wide and 100 feet long, and both had access 

 at all times to such grass and herbage as grew in the 

 runs. In addition to this, one flock received an abund- 

 ance of green food. At the end of the year, the fowls 

 which had the green food had laid two dozen more eggs 

 per hen than the other. 



Clover Pasture — In my locality, where we usually 

 have some warm weather and but little snow during 

 N'ovemljcr and December, it paj^s me to sow crimson 

 clover for pasture for the poultry. The land which 1 

 use for market gardening adjoins my poultry yards, 

 and my plan is to sow crimson clover as a catch crop 

 between the rows of garden vegetables, then when the 

 vegetables are gathered give tha fowls the range of the 

 field during the pleasant weather of the late fall and 

 early winter when the other grasses do not supply green 

 food for them. Crimson clover seems to be especially 

 adapted to this purpose, as, irnlike other clover, it 

 remains green after the hard frosts of early winter. 

 If it has been found that the crimson clover does not 

 endure the winter in your section, then sow a 

 little rye with the clover, and if the clover winter- 

 kills, the rye will survive. With such a pasture for 

 the hens now and some clover rowcn dried and put 

 away for later use, you arc in the way to make a good 

 profit from the hens next winter. — [W. II. Jenkins. 



