AMERICAN POULTRY CULTURE 
Gentleness pays in handling fowls. Tame fowls 
are more pleasurable than wild ones, and are also 
The Effect of More productive. Five minutes’ time 
Excitement a day, for a few weeks or months, 
Upon Fowls = will make any flock of chickens tame 
and easily handled. Learn them to feed out of 
your hands. Even Leghorns and other ‘‘ wild” 
breeds of poultry will become tame if paid a little 
careful attention. Large plants often have to 
restrict the number of visitors allowed on the 
place, because their presence in the houses and 
yards, and the attending noises, have a disastrous 
effect upon the egg production of the hens. Sud- 
den, jerky movements, loud tones in the voice, 
loud, flaming colors in the clothing, dogs or strang- 
ers running through the houses or yards, all have 
a bad effect upon egg production. 
Where only a small plot of grass can be had, if 
left unprotected it will soon be destroyed by the 
Making the hungry fowls. To overcome this dif- 
Supply of ficulty, I often covered the grass with 
Grass Constant wire netting when I was keeping poul- 
try on a town lot. By raising the netting on boards 
or cleats to the height of two or three inches above 
the ground the fowls can pick the grass off as it 
grows out above the netting, but cannot scratch it 
out or destroy the roots. The best netting for this 
use is the one-half-inch mesh. 
One of the quickest ways to make a hen forget 
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