Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-06-01
FOR THE FARMERS
Useful Information Concern.
ing Farm Work.
CLOVER GOOD FEED FOR POULTRY
They Like Glover Better Than All
Other grasses Keep the Bees in
Clean Ouarters.-NOte

Glover is most valuable for poultry.
A writer i'll the American Poultry Adj
yocate says that poultry likes clover
better than all other grasses or vege-
tables, and he is right. He reminds us
that it contains elements for growth of
bone, feathers and muscle i'll young
stock, and production of eggs with hens
For poultry that is moultlng it is most
excellent; inducing them TO moult early
and to go through their moult vigorant
and strong. 1t is an established fact
that poultry needs green food at times,
especially III summer. Glover grown
second crop should be cut, when just i'll
bloom, or just before this time when
there is profusion of tender green
leaves and the stalks have not become
woody. In curing the clover great
deal of care and attention should be
given. 1t should not be spread out in
/ the hot sun too long, but dried SO the
leaves shrink up some, but not dried
enough SO they will crumble and fall
off. In handling, the clover should be
put in a pile or cocks and left to go
through curing or sweating process.
These piles should be opened Il little
every day and the whole pile lightened
up and turned completely over, to get
the bottom hay which gathers moisture
from the ground up, where the air can
circulate through it. The piles or
cocks should be covered at night and
during any shower with IA hay cap.
After the piles have been up day or
two and have been cured some, the caps
should be kept on all the time. OF
course a great deal depends upon the
weather. In hot sunny weather
clover can be cured III a very few
days, at other times it would take much
longer When cured, clover can be
stored in a barn or other dry place. To
feed clover to get the best results, it is
best to cut it up very fine, the finer the
better, then take twice the bulk of cut
clover to bulk of grain, corn meal,
bran and wheat middlings the whole to
be thoroughly cooked for the morning
mash. The clover should be boiled for
an hour or more to make it soft. The
grain should be thoroughly mixed with
the clover, and the whole left i'll the
boiler to stand over night for the
morning mash and when cooked i'll a
boiler or set kettle, the whole mess
slowly cooks all night and comes out
in the morning a nice, hot steaming
mash, smelling sweetly of clover, and
is greedily eaten by poultry, large and
small, enough water should be used in
cooking the mash to have it come out
quite moist in the morning, when II
paddle full is thrown into the feed
trough it should spat little when it
strikes. If the mash should be stiff,
so as to crumble it is not eaten SO well,
the poultry are apt to scratch it out of
the trough and waste it. The stiff,
crumbly mash does not pass on to the
gizzard readily and time is lost and for
the time the poultry are crop bound.
When fed moist enough, there is no
trouble and it is all eaten up. Chick
ems grow fast OH such mash, but do
not fatten, hens fed i'll this way will
have red combs, keep healthy and lay
plenty of eggs