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PAGE EIGHT THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER GREEN FEED DURING WINTER Poultryman Should Have Supply to Last Through Season to Keep Fowlis in Condition. [Prepared by the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture.) @Green feeds for poultry contain only & small percentage of actual food nu- trients, but are important because of their succulence and bulk, which light- @n the grain rations and assist in keep- fng the birds in good condition. The ‘poultryman should secure a sufficlent supply of such feeds to last through the winter months in sections where growing feeds cannot be obtained. When chickens are fattened without the use of milk, green feed helps to keep them in good condition. Cabbages, mangel wurzels, clover, alfalfa, and sprouted oats are the green feeds commonly used during the winter. Cabbages do not keep as well In ordinary cellars as mangel wurzels, 80 where both of these feeds are avail- able the cabbages are fed first. They are often suspended, while the mangel wurzels are split and stuck on a nafl on the wall of the pen. Clover and al- falfa may be fed as hay, cut into one- hslf to one Inch lengths, or may be bought in the form of meal. Alfalfa meal has a feeding analysis equal to bran, but is not as digestible on ac- count of its larger percentage of fiber. Olover and alfalfa should be cut while slightly immature, if they are to be cured and fed to poultry. The leaves and chaff from such hay are especially adapted for poultry feeding. Sprouted oats make a very good green feed and are used quite ex- tensively in this country. The oate can be soaked for 12 hours in warm water and then spread out in a layer of from one-half to one and one-half inches deep on a floor, or in a tray or tier of flats, which have openings or holes or a three-sixteenths inch mesh wire bottom, so that the water drains freely. They may be stirred daily, sprinkled, or allowed to sprouf without stirring, until ready for feed-: ing. They are usually fed when the sprouts are from one to one and' one- Bprouted Oats Are Used Quite Ex tensively as Green Feed. half inches long, although some poul trymen prefer to allow the sprout: to grow to two or three inches long. Oats need a moist and warm atmos: phere in which to sprout quickly, s that it is necessary to furnish heat ol to keep them in a warm room durin; the winter, while they may be sprout- ed out of doore during the rest of th year. It takes from six to ten day: to sprout oats, depending on the tem perature of the room. MITES REMAIN IN FEATHERS Night Pest of Chickens May Stick to Fowls in Sufficient Numbers to Scatter Themselves. Chicken mites, the night pest of poul{ry, may not always leave the fowls before daylight, as commonly wupposed, but may remain in the feathers in such numbers as to make poultry possible carriers of this pest to uninfested places. This fact was brought out recently by an entomolo- gist of the United States department of agriculture in the course’ of a study of the life history and habits of the chicken mite, undertaken to dis- ‘cover principles on which combative measures might be based, COMFORT IN COLD WEATHER Hen HMHouse Should Have Plenty of Fresh Air and Sunlight—Make It Warm as Possible. Be sure that the poultry house is eomfortable during the cold weather— that it has plenty of air and sunlight on bright days, that it is made warm as possible, while furnishing enough Sresh air, during the cold nights when the hens are on the roost. Green is a restful color. Oculists| Charles Dickens, Lord Macaulay and say that of all colors green is the |pax Muller are numbered among the most friendly to the optic nerve. In |great men avowedly superstitious. lands where eternal snows or eternal [ Dickens refused to lie down on a bed white sands flash up their glaring re- [unless it was placed due north and flections, men have to shade their eyes |south, and he gave ample notice of his or bothers the eye. One can stare a for- (house or a hotel. It is said he car- est in the face all day with impunity. |ried a compass In his baggage to make Nature’s greens never get on our [sure, and the slightest error had to nerves. be corrected before he would turn in. I met a friend who had been i1l and replied: “Do you know, I nearly died!” inquired: “How are you now?” She bcuasn : o I said: “I'm glad to hear it.” She’s angry now.—Exchange. GRAHAM M: TORRANCE OBTEBOPATEIC AND SURGEON Green Is Nature’s Color. Great Men Superstitious. l DR. H. A. NORTHROP Ibertson Block Office phone 183 l DR. L. A. WARD Physician and Surgeon Bemid$i, Minn. go blind. But green grass never |rule before arriving- at a friend's DR. E. H. SMITH Physician and Surgeos That's Strange. cm— GREAT WANT GE THE BEMIDJI PIO% i 2 e e, rAWYER Bring us your clean oot Miles Block Phone_ 660 If you never have tried a IF ton M-l‘;mflflmg :::‘l B v S Pencil come in and v}rou or woolen sooep! - let us fit you with a degree TO GET . . DR. D. L. STANTON exactly suited to your taste. ) pENTIST YOU WANT T0 Pioneer Office -t L i PIONEER ‘STATIONERY HOUSE GET YOU WANT _ . Bemidji Wholesalers Minn. DR. EINER JOHNSON MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Physician and Surgeon THE demands on us for quality govds are continually increasing. in almost everything, means economy in the long run. Quality, as found in the famous VENUS Pencils and Erasers, means luxurious economy. Quahty Pianos, Organs, Sewing Machines 614 Minnesota Ave., Bemidjl J. Bisiar, Mgr. Phone 573-W —— Bemidji, Minn. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE DAILY PIONEER s aamy e TETG, Azge.{'.;’ e s, @ ery at the price he can afford to pay. be plenty to go around. The hour is 9:30 a. m. 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