. Eggs and egg farms : Trustworthy information regarding the successful production of eggs--the construction plans of poultry buildings and the methods of feeding that make egg farming most profitable .. . 31—ENJOYING A WIDE R.\NG£. of the fence, as they generally do, to alight upon it, the single wire will prove an obstacle to any further attempts to get out. Use your fowls well. Do not excite them, and you will experience little difficulty in this connection. It is the flighty, excitable layers that fly the fence on the slightest provocation. GREEN FOOD IMPORTANT The noon meal consists of th
. Eggs and egg farms : Trustworthy information regarding the successful production of eggs--the construction plans of poultry buildings and the methods of feeding that make egg farming most profitable .. . 31—ENJOYING A WIDE R.\NG£. of the fence, as they generally do, to alight upon it, the single wire will prove an obstacle to any further attempts to get out. Use your fowls well. Do not excite them, and you will experience little difficulty in this connection. It is the flighty, excitable layers that fly the fence on the slightest provocation. GREEN FOOD IMPORTANT The noon meal consists of the green food to be fed for the day. During the winter months he feeds mangel wurzels and cabbage; during the summer time clover and kale. He raises these foods in sufficient quantities. .He gets clover started as early as possible, and after it is three to five inches high, feeds it until mid-summer weather burns it up; then he begins on kale, which renews itself and lasts him until freezing weather kills the plants. Kale looks like a cross between beet tops and pie plant. We do not know how better to describe it. The leaves look like pale green beet leaves, but are much larger. As the outer rows of leaves are picked off new ones come out of the heart of the plant, and keep on doing so until winterkilled. It is certainly a great boon to poultrymen. Mr. Wyckoff had, when we were there, a patch about 25 feet wide by 150 feet long, which gave him all he needed for his 1200 fowls and chicks. The mangels used by Mr. Wyckoff are the large variety commonly fed to stock. They are used by him during the winter. He runs them through a cutter, slicing them up as fine as he can and feeding them in troughs. The cabbage is fed in much the same way. Even in the matter of green food, Mr. Wyckoff aims to give his fowls only as much as they will eat up readily. He wants them to eat their fill, but has noth- ing for them to waste. In connection with the noon feed of green food some whole grain
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