Show MANGELS PROVIDE WINTER GREEN FEED green food in some form 1 Is absolutely necessary to poultry for or tae the best beat growth and production the arst green food should be given soon atter after the chicks aro are put in the brooder continued feedings of green feeds w will III aid growth increase production and anu do crease the cost of 0 grain the first green food for the little chicks may consist of mangels potatoes or other vegetables cut up fine at first unell until the chicks learn to like them and later stuck on nails driven in the walls just high enough tor for the chick to reach lawn clippings or lettuce may be fed with good results free range gives give the best green food supply for or the growing chick but that Is 19 not always possible A small yard may be greatly improved by dividing it in the middle and sowing each half alternately to oats some poultry men scatter oats very thickly spade them in and allow the chicks to scratch them out as they begin to swell and sprout where it Is too dry or for other reasons impossible to get a good growth of green food in the yards it should lie supplied from outside dwarf esget rape and swiss chard may be produced abundantly with little labor and make excellent summer green food rape may be sown either in drill or broadcast as early as the ground can be worked in the spring and will be ready to cut in about six or eight weeks it Is apt to be somewhat affected by hot dry weather and will not last the entire season aniss chard should be planted in drills atter after the soil becomes thoroughly warm it will be ready for cutting in fight eight to ten weeks the chard stands drought n ell and will last until late in the fall where hens are not accustomed to green food in this form some little difficulty may be experienced in teaching them to eat it this however may be overcome by starting small feeds each day during the hot weather green food should be given early in the morning preferably while the dew Is still on the winter supply of green food should also be kept in mind every poultry plant should have a plot of mall mangels gels large enough to carry the mature stock through the winter and start the chicks in the spring mangels require a well prepared seed bed and good cultivation for the best results after the mangels are well matured the leaves may be broken off and used at once while the roots are stored for winter the great advantage in growing mangels Is the fact that they keep well nell in any reasonable storage and are easy to feed A crop of late cabbage may be grown to advantage after some other crop has been removed the immature heads may be used for fall feeding and the best stored for winter although cabbages make a very good green food they are not as popular with the poultry men as ag mangels on of the difficulty in storing clover and alfalfa may always be fed to advantage either dry or green beet pulp has also proved to be ver very y valuable where fresh green food cannot be obtained it E jones connecticut agricultural college |