TRIES IT ON CHICKENS,

‘| Seeking a proper poultry food,)
jafter what he termed “a colossal
_|failure” in the chicken business, |
Schnabel hit upon his grass dis-;
covery after hundreds of other ex-
|} periments had failed. When he
found young grass benefited his
chickens, he began feeding it to his)
family, with astonishing results.

Schnabel’s discovery is that young
grass, any kind of grass—wheat,
oats, rye, barley, bluegrass or corn—
reaches its maximum vitamin con-
tent just before the grass joints, or
usually after eighteen to twenty-one
days of growth. His tedious trial
‘jand error experiments have been |
.jconfirmed by scientific analyses.
After the first joint appears on the
3|grass stem, the assorted vitamins in|
»|the stem plummet downward. That.
tis why, he insists, that grazing ani-.
imals seek the tender’ grass shoots |
;{in preference to taller grasses. |
‘| Don’t jump at the conclusion that
you can eat the grass that flies from
the lawnmower, Schnabel advises. |
It isn’t palatable, and besides, it may |
not be cut at the right time or)
grown on the right soil. Schnabel’
has worked out a method for cap-'
turing the rich vitamins by “flash
drying” grasses at high tempera-.
_|tures,

CREDIT TO MRS. SCHNABEL,

“It’s Mrs. Schnabel who ought to
have the honors,” the 47-year-old
Schnabel modestly related yesterday.
“She stood for my experiments when
it made our home life pretty diffi-
cult.”

“Yes,” Mrs. Schnabel added, “he
littered up our house with grass. He
{broke the teeth out of the sausage
grinder and got grass stains on the
walls. We’ve had the coal furnace’
going in the spring and summer to|
dry grass over the kot air registers,

‘and it wasn’t very comfortable.
“T’ve had cakes fall in the oven,
and find them filled with grass.
.|That all comes of being married to
‘lan inventor,” she said, smiling
‘|\proudly at her husband. | ;
"| The Schnabels are proud of their ,

six sturdy children—David, 9 years
‘lold; Julia, 13; Emily, 14; Edward,

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