When Snows Are Deep 



upon transplanting products of Gulf 

 Stream environments into the north- 

 ern United States or Canada you have 

 no business to ask them to hug the 

 leeside of a barbed wire fence on a 

 stormy winter's night. And so with 

 our friend the harmless necessary hen. 

 If you are breeding owls, then leave 

 them to their own resources. Never 

 fear. Nature will look after her own 

 all right. That proud rooster though 

 that strutted and flirted his way so 

 gaily through the fields and gardens 

 last summer will be a sorry specimen 

 by February if not given real protec- 

 tion from the frost. He doesn't look 

 well and loses all his cockiness if that 

 bright red head-piece of his is blighted 

 and blackened by being frozen. His 

 best "biddy" will scarcely look at 

 him. 



Fine poultry, like fine cattle and the 



fleecy flocks, are artificial products of 



man's own ingenuity, and he must 



help them when they are helpless, or 



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