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rather young and crisp. The frilly growth makes them 

 easy for the fowls to attack. liase of division is quite 

 a point of advantage in a green stuff that is neither 

 rooted in the ground nor cut fine before being supplied. 



Such fodder stuffs as sorghum, the sweet millets, and 

 especially sweet corn are of especial value as supplied 

 green feed for geese, when this method of handling is 

 necessary. The geese delight in the sweet cornstalks, 

 which are better when slender and young. These are 

 equally good for hens and ducks, if they can be made 

 fine enough. When corn is planted more thinly and 

 allowed to ear, the milky ears, just a little older than for 

 the table, furnish one of the most attractive and whole- 

 some feeds for either chicks or fowls. 



Those who can raise onions will find them one of the 

 cheapest green feeds available for chickens and any fowls 

 not laying. Mr. John Robinson says that cooked onions 

 may be fed even to layers, in quantities not above five 

 pounds to a hundred birds. Too heavily fed, they taint 

 the eggs with their penetrating odor. These are most 

 excellent to give zest to the mashes and thrift to the 

 fowls. It is well, with these, as with any new offerings, 

 to mix them well, in small proportion, with some well- 

 liked ration, until the fowls form a liking for them. 

 Both the chicks and the older fowls become ravenous 

 for onions, cooked cabbage, and the like, once they have 

 learned how good they really are. 



During a portion of the year, the fowls can be kept in 

 pretty good health with little green feed aside from what 

 may be supplied in certain favored weeds. There are 

 reasons besides the mere flavor why the fowls will eat 

 some supplied stuffs and reject other sorts. The pale 



