Identifier: birdlore211919nati (find matches)
Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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^ to 3 feet apart, and thin to 12 or 14 inches apart in rows, at last hoe-ing. The extra plants pulled or cut out make excellent greens for the fowls in yardsduring the summer. Harvest just before the ground freezes and store in a dry cellarfor future use.—Extension News Service of Rhode Island State College. Now that we have learned how to make successful war gardens and how to keep
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WASTE GREENS FROM AN ADJOINING WAR GARDEN ADDS TO THE FARE OF THE POULTRY 126 Bird-Lore poultry in small quarters let us not give up such practical projects, since we may notonly gain from them more real knowledge and serviceable methods than by studyingbooks alone, but may also add much healthful food-material to our family store. Theyoung woman whose experiments in raising chickens in a patent house which accom-modates twelve or fourteen hens, has found a muUum in parvo (much in little) methodof keeping her home table supplied with fresh eggs and poultry, as well as having a sur-plus to dispose of in various ways. A neighboring artist reports similar success, and would not care to give up so pleas-ant and profitable a form of home economics as he has discovered in a small flock ofpoultry. Besides the food value of the project, the chickens are pets for the childrenand are also used to teach principles of thrift. Days of peace, we trust, are coming, but if we wish to make certain of

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