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flower seed with a drill, at the earliest 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 
