CHAPTER V. 



THE ]5i;oor)iNG oe cnicKS. 



Natural Brooding. — The essentials of natural brooding are 

 comparatively few. They consist of a quiet, motherly, broody 



Fig. 108 



hen or capon, some sort of cooj) that will protect the niuthcr 

 and clii<-ks from the weather and from enemies, and a fair- 

 sized, grassv, shady range. 

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