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to fresh ground every few days. If you are raising poultry in town, 

 by using these protected runs, you can keep your chicks confined so 

 they will not trouble your neighbors' garden and flower beds. Build 



Protected chick runs. 



them about two feet high and sufficiently wide and long so they can 

 be moved about without any inconvenience and still give plenty of 

 room for the growing chicks. 



Another style of protected chick runs. 



But if you are in the rural districts, a better and more practical 

 method must be adopted. For hawks, we have known of steel traps 

 being placed on top of a high pole out near the poultry yard. If you 

 get the pole very high, nail cleats on it so you can climb to the top. 

 \;iil a small board on the top, just large enough to hold the trap. If 

 a hawk comes near the poultry yard, he is very apt to light on this 

 pole first in order to get his bearings and take in the situation. As he 

 lights he is caught in the trap. 



If you are bothered with crows killing the chickens, select a few 

 eggs and puncture a hole in one end or side of the eggs. Drop in 

 some strychnine and stir it up well with the white and yolk. Place 

 these on top of fence posts or out in the yard, orchard or pasture where 

 they are out of reach of the chickens and stock. Place them where 

 the crows are in the habit of lighting or congregating. They will eat 

 the contents and disappear. 



At the main Experiment Station, they confine the chickens to a 

 Certain section of the farm. They string wires on high poles over the 



