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tious fowls, tireless foragers. If there is any scratching in sight, 

 whether it be a garbage heap, truck garden, cold-frame, manure 

 pile, or rose-bed, the Leghorn will make strenuous efforts to get 

 into it. Therefore, the person who would keep a garden, for 

 flowers or vegetables, had better see to it that his hen yard is 

 securely inclosed with wire netting if he expects to raise Leghorns. 

 If the runs are large enough, Leghorns can be confined within 



Fig. 13. — Lakenvelders. 



a seven-foot fence, as a rule. Once they develop the habit of 

 "yard-breaking," however, they will clear this with ease, for they 

 make a practice of half-flying and half-climbing up the netting. 

 Nervousness. — ^As previously mentioned, the Leghorn is a 

 nervous bird. Whenever danger approaches, or anything that 

 they imagine is dangerous or unusual, their first impulse is to 

 fly out of the way. They abominate the feeling of being cornered. 



