PRACTICAL FEEDING OF POULTRY 



ing used for the fowls, alternating these yards several 

 times during the growing season. 



Where weather conditions are favorable it is possible 

 to alternate the yards as often as every 4 to 6 weeks and 

 to get a green crop of sufficient height in that time to allow 

 the poultry range and green feed. Where only one yard 

 is available it is advisable to sow this to grain at least 

 twice during the growing season, confining the hens to a 

 small part of the yard near the house for about 6 weeks 

 until the grain is 2 or 3 inches high before the hens are 

 allowed to range on it. If the yard is ploughed once each 

 year it can be harrowed for the succeeding crops unless 

 the land is very heavy. Quick growing grain crops are 

 best to use for this purpose, oats being the most common 

 crop in which about 5 per cent of rape seed can be added 

 especially during the summer months. 



Seed oats or other grains at the rate of 2 to 2^ bushels 

 per acre and from 5 to 7 pounds of rape seed may be 

 added to advantage in the summer. A mixture of oats 

 and wheat makes a very good combination and in the fall 

 rye should be sown either straight or mixed with oats as 

 rye will stand freezing weather in many sections of this 

 country and much of the grain will live throughout the 

 winter if the fowls do not eat it too closely. Any quick- 

 growing grain crop adapted to one's section should be 

 the one to grow in the yards. 



OAT SPROUTERS 



Sprouted oats make an excellent feed where no other 

 form of green feed is available for use or to supplement 



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