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small chickens may be allowed to run if too many are 

 not kept in one place, but must be removed as soon as 

 they begin to pick off the fruit. 



The vegetable garden must be fenced in or the poul- 

 try kept in an enclosure where they cannot get into the 

 garden, for even small chickens will scratch and pick 

 the leaves from seedlings just coming out of the ground. 



