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a strip of corn for his rearing fields. 



The small breeder will rarely need to fence the ground on which his 

 young birds are reared, but most large breeders find this necessary. A 

 four-foot fence of woven wire, 3^^-inch mesh, is usually placed about the 

 rearing field and the wire is run under ground six inches to a foot as a 

 protection from vermin. Mr. Rogers does not fence his rearing fields, but 

 seems by skillful handling to lose few birds. Mr. Dunn lets the bottom of 

 his wire fence rest upon the surface of the ground and buries it to a depth 

 of several inches by running a furrow on one or both sides of it. 



