Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1916 — Sunflower Shade for Fowls [ARTICLE]

Sunflower Shade for Fowls

Sunflowers make excellent shade In poultry yards, and have the added ad-j vantage of producing considerable . grain, which hens will relish. * It may be necessary to protect the young plants until the growth Is 2 feet high by placing a strip of wire 1 netting around the group or row ot i plants, but after the plants get well established nothing will injure them j except a cyclone. If the shade fence Is planted along ‘ the south west sides of the poultry ! yard, they should be at least a foot* inside of the poultry fence, or else the, Opening heads have to be bent so that i all the seed will fall In poultry yard, otherwise considerable of the seed will be lost. .. i Sunflower seed ripens at a time when the fowls are in moult aAd the; seed contains oil that Is very helpful to fowls for starting new feathers. (i