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If fed green or partly cured it must be known abso- 

 lutely that it has not been permitted to stand in heaps 

 or receptacles until heated and poisoned by the pre- 

 liminary pro"cess of decay. The writer does not hesi- 

 tate to devote sufficient of these lines to an under- 

 standing of this prominent matter. 



The practice of taking care of our lawn clippings 

 and garden waste until fed to our stock may be trou- 

 blesome compared with storing these in baskets or 

 boxed until used up. If such green feed is spread out 

 in a manner to prevent heating and thus cared for 

 until fed, its use is saving and beneficial when given 

 in proper quantities. Its cheapness or convenience 

 should never influence the feeder to overload his stock 

 with the quantity of green feed which they will fre- 

 quently devour, suffering digestive disturbances in 

 consequence.* 



It is the writer's purpose to encourage the more 

 general use of green stuff. We have discovered feed- 

 ing schedules of hay and grain, the expense of which 

 could have been reduced 30 per cent by the use of 

 green feed and the stock benefited. We have taken 

 exhausted, sore-footed does to the "hospital yard," 

 put them on green food diet of chicory, kale, lawn 

 grass, etc., with enough coarse hay for roughage, and 

 quickly restored them to working order. 



In general practice we endorse the serving of two 

 or three good tastes of green feed per week at regular 

 feeding time, omitting the heavy grain feed on such 

 occasions. 



The general schedule of feeds applying to hutch- 

 fed rabbits includes most of those commonly apphed to 



* Greens should be fed with great caution to your rabbits 

 under three months old. 



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