Green Food for Winter Use

Mangels and well headed cabbage afford an abundant supply of succulent food for poultry during the winter months. Green foods, which contain certain substances not necessarily found in succulents, may be supplied by sprouted oats and also by green rye in localities where conditions are favorable. Various members of the cabbage family furnish a good supply of green food during the late fall months but it is difficult to keep them in satisfactory condition during the winter. In the field they may be injured by repeated freezing and thawing. They keep well also if kept constantly frozen, but it is not easy to keep them frozen and at the same time accessible. They keep well for a time when buried but are apt to yellow sooner or later.

For a number of years past I have made trials of various methods of storing these plants with the view of finding …