1io2 THE HOME POULTRY BOOK 
man with a little land has time to look after it, for 
lettuce can be grown all Winter. Swiss chard 
started in the Summer can be kept along several 
months by covering it with a cold frame. 
If the town-lot poultry keeper cares for the com- 
fort and craves the respect of his neighbors, he will 
make it a point to keep his hens and chickens con- 
fined to his own premises, and he will not have a 
rooster. The matter of fencing is important, for 
some hens fly high. Yet a very high fence is ob- 
jectionable. If six feet of wire will not keep the 
fowls out of the neighbors’ garden patches, a strip 
of netting a foot wide should be run around the 
top, covering the yard to that extent. When the 
hens try to fly out, they will meet this obstruction 
and be thrown back. Most hens find it difficult to 
scale a fence unless they can see the top and so 
gauge their distance. For that reason, there should 
never be a bar at the topof the witess ivasiman 
is needed for appearance or support, let it be more 
than a foot below the top. 
It is a great convenience to have a gate wide 
enough so that a wheel-barrow will pass through 
and to have it swing both ways, with springs to shut 
it. When an amateur puts up a poultry fence, the 
