Show POULTRY RAISE POULTRY FEED BY HAVING TW TWO 0 LOTS When open ron range e Is not available and hens liens must be bo confined we recommend recommend recOmmend mend the division of ot the hen yard ard Into o that green food can be bo two lots t so grown on one side while the other patch Is being grazed As soon as the green stuff Is two or three Inches high the hens may moy be bo turned on It while the other lot may moy be prepared and sowed again This plan provides feed teed plenty of ot green succulent throughout the year for the average farm flock Hock Sooner or later we will have two or more such lots fenced In Inon Inon Inon on our farms with the hen house so placed with reference to convenience for tor the caretaker Lots containing an nn acre or more divided b by fences and large enough to provide considerable pasturage for the family cow and a growing gro heifer are arc very desirable for tor growing farm poultry The rhe pigs s should not he be turned in however for foras foras foros as os a rule pigs and chickens do not go gowell gowell gowell well together There are times when the poultry do some harm to some of the crops 0 at ator ator t tor or soon after planting time lime but after they have a good start this Is not very often the case Take corn for Instance Instance In In- stance after It is a foot high and find from then on it Is hard bard to find a n better hetter run for poultry They help work worl the crop destroy insects and the corn com In turn furnishes the much- much needed shade Hawks by the way was can do little harm hann to birds on range in a corn field The Time green reen crops to be grown should be suited to local conditions as well as to the proper time to plant in order to have a n succession of ot green crops throughout the year ear There are times when these lots should not be grazed too too closely but allowed to get a n fresh start so here is where the other yard comes in play pIny Birds can be shifted from one to the theother theother other thus saving both pasture lots lota much longer Thickly sown crops furnish succulent succulent succulent lent feed and summer shade From April 1 to July 1 on growing yard 1 1 Oats Oats chard or lettuce clover or vetch sunflowers cowpeas rape For feeding purposes on yard 2 2 Winter rye Je winter vetch sweet clover and various other green clover crops From Jul July 1 to October 1 the oats chard and lettuce clover and vetch cowpeas and ond rape on yard ard 1 may be beted fed ted while buckwheat dwarf var Essex C rape and flat fiat turnips are grown on yo yard rd 2 Prom From October 1 to April 1 the growing growIng growing grow grow- ing crops on yard 1 should consist of ot oats winter rye re winter Inter vetch sweet clover and crimson clover while at nt atthe atthe the same time yard 2 could be growing growing grow grow- In ing buckwheat dwarf dwart Essex rape flat turnips and soy beans We Ye In this state are blessed with witha a n climate that makes It possible to have some seine green pasturage crop growIng growing grow grow- ing lag at nt all nIl seasons It is one of the ver very best and cheapest foods for tor our poultry as well as other live lire stock Allen G. G Oliver er In Charge Office of ot Poultry Extension North Carolina State Agricultural College |