American Agriculturist, November 1, 1924 
Hand Power 
Hercules 
Fastest, Cheapest Way 
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At a contest held recently in England, 
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Horse 
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jSHOT GUNS BREECH LOADING $4.50 
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extra Bird shot Cartridges for these guns, $3.00 hundred, 
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KITSELMAN FENCE 
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Classified Ads 
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EGGS AND POULTRY 
MARCY STRAIN Giant cockerels, $3.50 
sach Weight 8 lbs. or more. Cock birds, $4. 
H. D. PINCKNEY, Mahopac, N. Y, _ 
' CORNELL CERTIFIED single combed 
white Leghorn hens, cocks and cockerels — 
also selected breeders, yearlings, and May- 
hatched pullets. Have large stock to dispose of 
immediately. Breeding excellent, prices right. 
ROY E. RATHBUN, Cincinnatus, N. Y. 
APRIL-HATCHED mixed pullets for winter 
avers 20 for $30; 100, $145; May hatch, 20 
525 GARDEN STATE CHICKERY, 329, 
\rcii St., Camden, N. J. 
BLACK JERSEY GIANT cockerels $3.50. 
3 ure bred for breeding, free range, spring 
latch. J. V. REYNOLDS, Petersburg. N. \. 
PARKS STRAIN, Barred Rocks pedigreed 
cocks, cockerels, hens and pullets for sale at 
reduced prices. NORTON INGALLS, Green- 
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R. I. RED COCKERELS, single comb, well- 
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Prices and full descriptions, fi’ee E. C. 
WEATHERBY, Box 114, Ithaca, N. Y 
TURKEYS 
FOR SALE—Early hatched Mammoth 
Ironze Gold-bank turkeys, toms $10, hens $7. 
dRS. A. M. ANSTED. Adams, N. T. 
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GEO. F. LOWE AND SON, Fultonville 
ew York, ship New York State clover and 
mothy, alfalfa, oat and wheat straw, alfalfa 
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UNITED TOBACCO GROWERS, Paducah, 
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Green Food for the Hens 
Adds Variety to Ration and Acts as Tonic 
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"ALFALFA, mixed, and timothy hay for sale 
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WALDROP BROTHERS, Murray,.Ky, - . 
A T this time of 
year along with 
the harvest, one has a chance to do the 
hen a good turn by setting aside some 
sort of green or succulent food for her use 
in the winter time. Perhaps it is a few 
beets or carrots left over from the garden, 
in whole, they read¬ 
ily pitch into them. 
Twenty to twenty-five pounds a day is a 
good allowance for 100 hens. 
Sprouted oats is the most fussy food of 
all and is probably the most expensive, 
considering the labor. There is some 
apples from the orchard, heads of cabbage compensation in the fact that, for all the 
that split or were too small for setting, oats set, they expand to three times the 
They are worth saving; put them in the ^ 
cellar or cover them over with dirt and 
straw in some corner where the wind will 
not sweep the ground bare of snow. 
The hen really has a dreary outlook 
when the fall comes. One day she eats 
grass and bugs; the next day frost or snow 
removes this part of her daily ration and 
her body suffers. Overnight she has 
been robbed of a vital part of her ration; 
scientists say that she has lost vitamine 
B and some of vitamine C, but, for our 
purpose, it will be enough to say that she, 
by loss of greens, fruits, and vegetables, 
has lost certain essential factors which are 
necessary for her w'ell being, w r hether she 
is a hen or a pullet. Hence the necessity 
for green food in the daily ration of any 
flock of hens. 
Green Food Tones Up the Ration 
As I have already said almost any 
vegetable or fruit constitutes a green 
food. It does not follow, however, that 
you are supplying hens with green food 
simply because your mash. contains Al¬ 
falfa Meal. Green food implies succulence 
and freshness of quality. It adds variety 
to a very much cut and dried winter diet, 
and, above all, it stimulates a bird’s 
appetite and tones up her system. 
While there a,re numerous fruits and 
vegetables which come under the general 
heading of green food, there are three 
specific feeds that find popular favor 
among poultrymen: sprouted oats, beet 
mangels and cabbage. The use of one of 
these three green stuffs lies open to every 
farmer, because one or more of them 
represent a part of the yearly crop. To 
the commercial poultryman who has no the good qualities that any green food 
amount during the sprouting process. 
The chief trouble, however, is that heat of 
some kind is necessary in the sprouting 
process: the trays of oats must be kept 
near the stove or furnace. The more heat 
they receive, the quicker they sprout. 
On the other hand, it is better to have the 
temperature as nearly uniform as pos¬ 
sible. This wall keep the sprouting proc¬ 
ess steadily going on and insure a steady, 
consistent supply of green food, for noth¬ 
ing is worse for a flock of hens than to 
give them a good feeding of greens one 
day and then none for two or three days. 
How to Sprout Oats 
To sprout oats soak them in a pail of 
W'arm water over night. Next day spread 
them about an inch deep in yoiu oat 
tray and continue the process until six 
or seven trays are set. By that time the 
oats will have sprouted enough for feeding. 
They will constitute the best feed when 
the sprouts are from one to two inches 
high. Allow each hen one to one and a 
half square inches of this feed a day. 
As it is concentrated feed, it should not 
be used hit or miss. A failure to use it 
day in and day out will result in poor 
egg production. Likewise, an over¬ 
supply is none too good for laying. 
Avoid Mouldy Oats 
There is one other factor that may cause 
trouble when oats are sprouted, and that 
is mould. Clean oats, oats free from dust 
and dirt, do not mould. 
The writer has not meant to slight other 
green foods. Rather has he taken these 
three as being typical of and possessing 
crop of this nature the necessity of buying 
and storage becomes a problem which 
must be met, for a hen to do well, to pay 
well, must have green food. 
Vary in Composition 
The composition of these three foods 
is, however, not the same. Sprouted 
oats and mangels are the most desirable 
of the three feeds and have a better vita¬ 
mine content; or, to put it another way, 
these tw r o feeds give the hen more nearly 
what she requires for her physical, well 
being. Cabbage, on the other hand, is not 
to be scoffed at; it, too, contains, the 
necessary vitamines, but, because it is 
ought to possess. Green food in a com¬ 
mercial poultry plant is a necessity, a 
necessity that repays the poultryman 
with good dividends. Its use in a farm 
flock cannot help but increase winter egg 
production. 
Fall Henhouse Cleaning Time 
Is Here 
T HE season is here when the hens must 
be put in winter quarters. Are you 
ready? If not, begin right now while the 
weather is nice and pleasant, clean the 
houses, wash the windows, put fresh cloth 
on the open spaces, as the ones now in are 
largely composed of water, a hen must dusty, if not torn, and a good circulation 
consume much more cabbage to get the 
same amount of good out of it as she 
would out of oats or beets. To use an 
illustration, the writer tested a pen of 
birds out. The hens had been fed 
of air is impossible. If there are any 
broken glass put in new and look for 
cracks where a draft may get in. We use 
curtains in front of roosts and some on 
ends. Be sure that these are clean and 
sprouted oats, but, when early cabbage ready to use, for often the first cold rains 
came, it w r as quoted at such a low price come while the hens are on range and, if 
that he gradually changed from sprouted they are obliged to go to bed some night 
oats to cabbage, all other conditions in the cold and wet, put up the curtains until 
pen remaining the same. The egg produc- they get warm and dry and the chances 
tion decreased and decreased as the cab- are they will not take cold; but do not 
bage increased. From a production of leave them up so they get too warm, for 
40 per cent., the decrease continued until they will take cold that way just as well, 
there was practically no egg production the Ltce 
left. A hasty return to sprouted oats 
saved a few- dozen eggs, but the cabbage It is a good plan to spray the houses or 
had already produced disastrous results, pens with a soap and sulphur solution, a 
Just the same, cabbage is succulent and nice warm day when it will dry out and 
contains some value. By all means feed not leave dampness. Paint the roosts and 
it to a hen, and, to remedy its water 
composition, keep them hanging on a 
string or stuck on a spike where the hens 
can have them all the time. 
Cow Beets Excellent 
Cow beets or mangels are excellent for 
feed. As a crop they have good keeping 
qualities whether they are stored in a 
cellar or covered over with straw and 
dirt. Hens relish them as a food, and, 
no matter whether they are split or thrown 
nests with kerosene or, if you have it, 
the used oil of a car or tractor. We like 
to have our roosts loose so we can take 
them down, stand on end in a pail of oil 
and paint all sides. Then paint carefully 
the sides all around where the hens roost, 
and the nests. If depluming mites or 
head lice of any kind are on the hens dip 
the hens. Another louse remedy we find 
very good is to dust with a good louse 
powder over the birds while on the roosts. 
— Mrs. C. J. Doxtater. 
mmsr. 
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