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flower seed with a drill, at the eariiest possible 

 moment in the spot where you wish the fence 

 to be; then drive stakes at intervals along the 

 row and stretch two-foot chicken wire over 

 them. Even the wire will confine the chicks 

 when they are small, and by the time they have 

 grown big enough to get over that, the sun- 

 flowers have grown up and made a " chicken- 

 tight" combination. Hens are too stupid to 

 think of flying over such a barrier, yet the 

 poultry raiser can come and go as if there was 

 no barrier. 



This is not only a cheap fence, but it affords 

 the necessary shade for the fowls in hot weather. 

 They lie about among the stalks scratching 

 in the cool earth and getting a dirt bath at any 

 time in the day. Then late in the season the 

 sunflower heads are cut down and the pullets 

 do the harvesting of that crop in short order. 

 No other variety of fence can be used for food 

 when its usefulness as a barrier is past. You 

 could easily put up this sort of a fence your- 

 self, and as the sunflower is a very hardy plant, 

 you might even try sowing the seed in the fall, 

 so as to get an early start in fence building in 

 the spring. 



You must be willing to give your time and 

 attention if you are to succeed. One man who 



