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UST THINK how a bed of plants in 
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Seedsmen 
362 Main Street, Rochester, N. Y. 
high and stools out enormously. For chicks 
it should be cut when not more than one or 
two feet high and chopped into short lengths. 
It grows again after cutting, and in a warm 
season and on rich soil may be cut four 
or five times in the season. 
Sometimes a larger yard or field is avail- 
able back of the poultry yards into which 
the fowls from the different yards may 
be allowed to run on alternate days. They 
thus take turns in harvesting their own 
greens and incidentally many insects. 
This field may be a meadow or pasture, or it 
might be planted to corn or potatoes or 
some such crop which the birds will not 
injure. A fruit orchard or berry field will 
be excellent for this purpose, although of 
course when the fruit is ripening it will be 
necessary to exclude the fowls from the 
berry field. 
For succulent winter feed, mangel wur- 
zels are the easiest to store and keep best. 
There are several varieties but I have always 
been successful on light soils with the Yellow 
Globe or Golden Tankard. Sow the seed 
in drills which are from fifteen to thirty 
inches apart, as early in spring as the 
ground can be worked. 
Clover is always excellent for poultry, 
and the second growth of medium red 
clover, cut and dried without wetting, makes 
a much relished winter food. It may be 
cut short and steamed or scalded. 
Crimson clover may be sown in corn 
or among garden crops at the last working 
of the soil. It will furnish greens for the 
birds in spring and early summer, and at 
any time when not covered with snow. 
It is an annual, however, and the seed has 
to be planted each year. 
Alfalfa is even better for poultry than 
clover, and if once established in the soil 
will last for years. It may be cut several 
times in a season and a small patch will 
furnish a large amount. Alfalfa requires 
a well-drained, clean soil. 
With a small area of land any of the above 
may be grown successfully, and if used 
liberally not only will the feed bills be greatly 
reduced but the health of the birds will 
be assured. 
New Jersey. F. H. VALENTINE. 
Blight Disease of Melons 
aE melon blight affects the foliage and 
causes the vines to die off and destroys 
the flavor of the fruit, as fine fruits can only be 
had from a healthy growing vine. Frequent 
spraying with Bordeaux mixture has been 
tried but without any marked success, as it 
could not be used after the fruits are well 
grown without spoiling their appearance and 
this blight usually comes about the time the 
first fruits are ready to gather. It would 
seem that the appearance of the trouble is 
associated with certain situations. My obser- 
vation,” says Mr. Darlington, “is that melons 
grown in a cool location are quite free from 
all the troubles, and I have known late plants 
which ripened their fruits in September to be 
entirely free from the insects and blights 
which largely destroyed the crop from earlier 
plantings in the same locality.” 
THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
JUNE, 1908 
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