SUCCESS IN POULTRY CULTURE 
Where cabbage is cheap and plentiful 
it makes a good green food for the birds, 
and when it is used, whole heads should 
be hung up in their houses or scratching- 
sheds, just out of their reach, so they will 
have to make a good jump for every bite 
they get. This, together with the scratch- 
ing for the grain, will give them plenty of 
exercise, and plenty of exercise helps to 
fill the egg-basket; birds that have plenty 
of exercise are always more prolific than 
those that have but little. 
If cabbage can not be had at a reason- 
able price, then, if the litter in which their 
scratch food is hid is composed of bright 
clover or alfalfa hay, and cut up fine, they 
will get a good deal of green food out of 
that, but not enough to satisfy them. A 
few sprouted oats in connection with the 
alfalfa and clover make the green-food 
ration complete. Most poultrymen think 
that they can not get along without 
sprouted oats, but with us oats are so 
high and searee that we don’t find it 
profitable to feed them. 
Some voultrymen say that corn and 
Kafir silage, when cut fine, makes good 
green food for poultry, but we have never 
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