GREEN FEED ESSENTIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20111, 23 November 1928, Page 19

GREEN FEED ESSENTIAL.

Do not forget to keep up tlio supply of green food if you wish to have eggs from now on. This is going over old ground but £omo amateurs seem to think that tlio green food business is just a fad; but wo assure our readers that it is not. the absoluto necessity of greon food for the laying hen at all times of the year has been proved by experiment after experiment, and every successful commercial poultry-farmer knows this. It should bo given every day, not onco a week when tho lawn is cut. If Micro is space a plot of ground chould bo put asido for tho express ptirposo of growing green fodder. Rape, lucerne, kail, silver beet, maizo and Japanese millet all mako good crops for this purpose. If short of room or in an out-back district where water is scarco and tlio production of any " garden truck " out of tho question, resort to sprouted oats, a method several limes explained in these columns. Seven trays put down 0110 dav after another, and in n week tho first will bo ready; this will probably last a couple of days, then the next tray can bo used, and so on, always refilling tho trays as they becomo empty. By iliis means a continuous supply can bo kept at hand, and only n small corner of tho yard need be used for it.