The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-02-29

1t will surprise some to think of
fowls eating hay, but they will &C.
tua'ly eat all OF the leaves OF the
clover Or alfalft stems 80 much do
they relish green food.
Lawn clippings gathered with a
grass catcher fastened to the lawn
mower and dried and soaked in the
winter and fed as needed is another
cheap green food which can be used
to advantage.
Sprouted oats make another good
form Of green food for winter USE
Or for the whole year for that mat
ter. Where the birds are kept in
close confinement. The grain is
soaked in lukewarm water over night
and then placed in a shallow box or
pan in two inch layer and the
pans kept in a comparatively warm
place for ten days or until the young
plants reach an eighth Of an inch.
Several pans should be used So that
the fowls will have green food ev-
cry other day Or less frequent than
three times a week.
1t is necessary OF course to have
a sprouting box to be used to hold
the pans OF grain. The box may be
made any size that is convenient.
The pans may be purchased in Ave
Or ten cent store for five or ten cents
each. Then the box may be made
to fit the pans. Make the box SO
inches long by 10 inches wide and
, inches deep. The pans are SKI inch.
es and 4 inches deep. This sprouting
box is made fiat that it may be hung
up by wires near or directly above
the furnace in the basement of any
home and the box is up out OF the
way and where the temperature is
70 to 80 degrees most Of the time.
The box may also be placed in n
warm window in the basement. Aft.
er the oats is soaked over night in
water, the water is drained off
in the water, and one OF these pans
one third filled with the soaked grain.
Everyday after this, then, soak
enough grain to place in another
pan. Thus with ten pans you will
have sprouts about every day in
the week for one pen or every other
day for two pens. The temperature
at which the sprouts are kept will
have much to do with the frequency
Of the rotation. The sprouts are
sprinkled once day, care being TAX.
en- that they are kept reasonably
moist. A damp cloth may be kept
over them for two or three days with
good results.
The sprouting grains from a bulky
mass of tender roots and sprouts
and grains and the fowls greedily
cat the last particle. With oats at
sl.25 per hundred in Utah this win.
ter sprouted oats make a very cheap
and green food.
If 1t is desired to sprout the oats
in some room of the house where
space is at a premium an ordinary
coffee box 3 or feet high and Is
inches wide and IL inches deep may
be fitted with shelves and door
and set On end and legs placed on 1t
so that a small No. l lamp may be
set on the floor under the box with
large hole in the bottom OF the box
and space back and front OF the
shelves so that warm air will circu-
late and holes In tho top of the box
for the fumes to escape, this max.
ing very satisfactory home sprout-
ing box. The lamp should be turned
very low and even then in a warm
room the fame will hardly be nee
essary only on cold days. BY all
means do not enclose the lamp in
the box though, as 1t will not get
enough air to causc proper combus.
ton and II will smoke and cause you
trouble Edwin Brickert, In Utah
Farmer.