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Show PLACE FOR SPROUTING OATS Warm Cellar or Furnace Room Is Excellent Ex-cellent Sprinkling With Water Aids Growth. A warm cellar or a furnace room makes good places in which to sprout oats. Light is not essential, though if the oats are sprouted in the dark they will not have a green color. One day's exposure to light will turn the sprouts green, however. Sprinkling the oats twice a day with water as warm as the hand can stand, will greatly hasten growth, but sprinkling with cold water will result in a much slower growth, writes T. Z. Eichey in Farm and Home. The box or tray in which the oats are sprouted should provide good drainage. If the water stands in the trays the oats will mold and be unsafe for feeding. A block of oats a foot square makes a good feed for 50 hens. |