CHAPTER X 



Succulent Green Food — Satisfactory Egg Produc- 

 tion Impossible Without It 



A GOODLY supply of green food is necessary to all 

 birds, the growing chicken as well as the yearling hen, 

 for it is a great aid to digestion, helping to properly 

 assimilate all foods as they are taken into the crop, 

 and passed through the great grinding mill of a 

 chicken. 



There is no possible hope of a full egg supply from 

 any Laying House where a large quantity of green 

 food is not fed daily. It may be fed in many forms. 

 Clover or Alfalfa (and we are now speaking first of 

 the Winter supply of green food) may be procured in 

 a dry state, and by properly scalding it with hot water 

 it may be made to almost live again, so far as its 

 freshness and delightful odor go. In many cases the 

 preparation of Clover or Alfalfa spoils it. The 

 water should be quite at the boiling point, and it 

 should be poured over, preferably it should be put on 

 with a sprinkling can. The method at The Corning 

 Egg Farm is to place whichever we are using of the 

 Clover family in pails, a given number for each Lay- 

 ing House, and as they stand in rows the hot water 



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