Show winter green feed very important for the hens if one has cabbages or mangels stored in a cellar where they may freeze it often pays to keep a thermometer in the cellar find and give it additional dit ional protection or use a lantern to bring up the temperature it if the mercury begins to stand close to 32 degrees frozen green feed Is not good for hens and constant freezing and thawing la 18 not good for the keeping qualities of the feed hens do not like rye groin grain but they will eat sprouted rye and it seems to be a satisfactory green feed sprouted oats are generally used if you make a homemade grain with wooden trays heated with a kerosene incubator lamp be sure the fire risk Is not greater than the value of the sprouted oats in most cases I 1 think the metal sp routers are a good investment because the fire risk Is greatly grantly reduced when mangels are anre sliced aud and thrown in the litter they pick tick up more or less dirt and straw cutting them in halves and laying them in wooden troughs may be a better way then the liens hens can peck out the succulent feed more readily than whon when the pieces are arc half burled buried in the litter |