| Show WINTER FEED FOR THE HENS almost any cover crop will answer but there Is nothing so easily produced as rye some kind of green food Is feces sary for the hens in winter and sometimes it Is a little difficult to know just how to provide it bluegrass blue grass pasture usually affords green grass al most all winter out not all of ug can have a good large bluegrass blue grass range most everyone who has hens has a garden that they can use tor provid ing green for them not only do you get value from your garden in the winter when it would be lying idle otherwise but you are benefiting the soli at the same time almost any winter growing cover crop will an awer but there Is nothing so easily produced or that provides green so quickly as rye in the spring it will make a mass of foliage to be plowed under to enrich the soli and place it in a splendid mechanical condition when you plow for the rye do not make the seed bed level but leave it as rough as you can this will cause it to gather the rain and hold it and in the spring the soil will have stored a good supply against the sum mer droughts |
