POULTRY FEEDS AND FEEDING 



ditions are well adapted for raising such crops. Root 

 crops need a cool summer season to give the best results. 

 These feeds are of equal value for poultry but mangels 

 can usually be raised and handled more economically 

 than cabbages. Information regarding the raising and 

 storing of root crops and the comparative yield of these 

 crops is discussed in chapter VIII. 



Cabbages do not keep so well as mangel beets in ordi- 

 nary cellars so that the former should be used up first and 

 the beets kept for feeding later in the winter if both crops 

 are raised. Beets and other crops of this nature are only 

 raised extensively in the northern section of this country. 

 Cabbages may be hung up on a wire or rope in the poultry 

 house while beets are usually split and stuck on a nail on 

 the side wall of the pen about a foot above the floor or 

 they may be hung up as are cabbages. Vegetables which 

 have been frozen can be thawed out and fed to fowls but 

 will not keep long after they are thawed. 



CLOVER AND ALFALFA 



Freshly cut green clover and alfalfa are excellent green 

 feeds and may be fed mixed in with the mash or fed 

 separately in open hoppers. While the dried feeds such as 

 alfalfa meal and clover or alfalfa hay are not nearly so 

 well relished by fowls as are fresh green feeds the former 

 offer a fair substitute using from 5 to 8 pounds in 100 

 pounds of the dry mash. Clover and alfalfa hay may be 

 cut into one-fourth to one-half inch lengths and mixed 



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