GREEN FOODS 



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beneficial effect on the system. If we tried to sustain ourselves 

 on lettuce and celery alone, we would fail, because they do not 

 contain sufficient nourishment. On the contrary, if we tried to 

 sustain ourselves without greens of any kind, we would fail also, 

 because the more concentrated foods would soon reduce our 

 systems to a break-down. The same condition applies to poultry. 



Table XX. — Composition of Green Foods 



Water 



Carbo- 

 hy- 

 drates 



Grasses 



Alfalfa (green) 



Alfalfa (dry) 



Clover (green) 



Clover (dry) 



Lawn clippings (green) 

 Lawn clippings (dry) . 



Barley (green) 



Peas and oats (green) . 

 Roots 



Potatoes (white) 



Potatoes (sweet) 



Beets (mangel) 



Beets (sugar) 



Beet pulp (dry) 



Beet pulp (wet) 



Onions 



Turnips 



Carrots 



Artichokes 



Leaves 



Cabbage 



Lettuce 



Beet tops 



Rape 



Onion tops 



Chard (Swiss) 



Per cent 

 80.00 

 11.90 

 70.80 

 10.00 

 76.40 

 15-30 

 76.00 

 80.50 



78.9 

 71. 1 

 90.9 

 86.4 



8.0 

 89.8 

 87.6 



90-5 

 88.6 

 80.0 



90.5 

 95-9 

 88.0 

 89.2 

 91.0 

 87.8 



Per cent 

 1.80 



7-13 

 2.10 



8.10 

 2.40 



5-50 



7-30 



1.74 



I.O 

 I.O 



I.I 

 ■9 



5-4 

 .6 

 .6 

 .8 



I.O 

 I.O 



1.4 

 .8 

 2.4 

 2.0 

 I.I 

 2.4 



Per cent 

 4.90 



14.12 

 4.40 



16.32 

 2.30 

 7.40 

 2.71 

 2.90 



2.1 



1.6 

 1.4 

 1.8 

 9-5 

 ■9 

 1.4 

 I.I 

 I.I 

 2.5 



3-8 

 1.6 



4-4 

 3-4 

 3-9 

 4-4 



Per cent 



4.70 

 27.09 



8.10 

 17.84 



4.10 

 27.20 



6.90 



6.00 



.6 



1-3 



■9 



■9 



15-4 

 2.4 



•7 

 1.2 



1-3. 



1-5 



■5 



2.2 



2.6 



3-0 

 2.9 



Per cent 



7.90 



37-34 



13-50 



45-99 



13.80 



42.10 



7.00 



8.80 



17-3 

 24.6 



5-5, 



9.8 

 61.3 



6.3 



9-4 



6.2 



7.6 

 15-5 



2.4 



I.O 



2.6 



2-3 



.8 

 2.5 



Per cent 



-07 

 2.42 

 1. 10 



1-75 

 1. 00 

 2.50 



•09 

 .c6 



0.1 



■4 

 .2 

 .1 

 -4 



-3 

 .2 



-4 

 .2 



-4 



.2 



2.2 



-5 

 .2 



•4 



Fowls are vegetable eaters, and they are grazers, though not 

 to the same extent as geese and ducks. They like to forage, 

 which affords much needed exercise as well as tidbits of greens. 

 On the majority of egg farms, and the same thing is true of most 

 of the backyard flocks, there is not sufficient range to maintain 

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