26 $4223.00 IN ONE YEAR 



should constitute at least 50 per cent of the feed during the cold 

 weather. 



Green Food Necessary for Young Chicks 



Green food should not be overlooked when chicks are small. In 

 the very early Spring sprouted oats make a splendid green feed for 

 them. As soon as possible, sow a bed of oats, cover the top of it with 

 one-inch poultry netting, which should be placed about six inches 

 from the ground. The chicks will eat the tops off and they will 

 grow up again. Take six-inch boards and stand them around the edge 

 of the bed, driving sticks in the middle to keep the wire from sagging. 

 The wire can be nailed on the top end of the board, which will 

 make a good arrangement for this purpose. 



The little fellows prefer this green feed to anything that you can 

 furnish them, and it is always there for them to work on. By the 

 time the oats are through growing the chicks will be large enough 

 to eat any green feed that is supplied them. 



Charcoal and Grit Important 



As the chicks grow larger it is important that they are furnished 

 with plenty of charcoal and grit of a larger size than they required 

 when they were smaller. The charcoal and grit can be secured in 

 three sizes — one size for the baby chick, a medium size for the 

 growing chick, and a large size for the matured fowl. Their Winter 

 quarters should be provided with a hopper containing bran, beef 

 scrap, oyster shell, grit and charcoal, a section for each. During the 

 Winter months, when the hens are confined, they should be fed 

 green bone, about three pounds to a hundred hens per day. Skimmed 

 milk, curdled thick, makes a good substitute for green bone. I get 

 splendid results without feeding mashes. But mashes are good if 

 not too wet. A mash moistened with milk makes fine feed for hens. 

 To insure the proper amount of exercise during the Winter months 

 it is best to put the grains in litter and compel the hens to scratch 

 for them. Green food must not be overlooked. When it is not con- 

 venient to feed sprouted oats, alfalfa meal, cabbage or mangels are 

 splendid. 



Sprouted Oats a Great Egg Producer 



Sprouted oats is the best green feed obtainable, and makes a 

 good cheap feed and is a great egg producer. The fowls are fond 

 of it. Peed at noon as much as they will eat up clean. To prepare, 

 take a pail half full of oats, soak in water for about on? day, drain 

 water, and empty into a box with half-inch holes bored in the bottom. 

 Sprinkle night and morning with hot water. When oats commence 



