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Special Feed Crops — Young lettuce leaves will add 

 greatly to the health and growth of the chickens. 

 Onions should also be grown and kept for feeding. If 

 chopped moderately fine, they will he eagerly consumed 

 by fowls. Tobacco should also bo grown and used to 

 keep the stock free from lice. Pull the f)lants before 

 frost, and hang them in the barn or shed to dry. A 

 handful of the leaves in the nests of sitting hens will 

 add a great deal to their comfort and more to that of 

 the young. Beans, well cooked, either whole or ground, 

 will help fill up the list of foods. Rape seed is easily 

 raised, and would be useful for choice young chickens. 

 Seeds of the common millet, Golden millet, sorghum 

 and broom corn will make a variety in the list of good, 

 cheap foods. Egyptian corn, a kind of sorghum, is 

 valuable for 3'oung or old fowls. Barley, lye and oats 

 . are all acceptable to poultry. — [E. M. Hess. 



Cabbage — My experience with cabbage is that about 

 the very best u.se one can make of loose heads is to 

 make them up in sauerkraut; then as soon as worked a 

 little, put where it will freeze, so as to keep them. 

 Use it once a day as a part ration of food. They 

 relish it very much. In this way one can supply a 

 great amount of extra rations for the poultry that 

 usually goes to waste. Put away in this way, one has 

 a fresh supply in a small compass until grass comes. 

 Use but little salt; for one large barrel I use only a 

 teacupful. Pound it well, put heavy weights on and 

 it will keep until warm weather. Keep in an out- 

 building because of tlie odor. — [D. E. Hale, Allegheny 

 County, Pa. 



Mangels — The yield of this beet, according to the 

 amount of ground taken up by it and the time and 

 expense of cultivating, is immense. It is little trouble 

 to harvest and easy to keep in the winter, either in pits 

 or in the cellar. If it is desirable to feed raw, the 



