SUCCESS IN POULTRY CULTURE 
If your yards are to be permanent, 
shade-trees can be planted along the bor- 
der of each yard and headed high enough 
so that the top will be above the fence. 
After the trees have become well estab- 
lished, the trunks can be used for posts 
to fasten the fence to. 
Fruit-trees are better than shade-trees 
for this purpose, for they not only provide 
shade, but plenty of the finest kind of 
fruit, for the fowls destroy the insects 
that prey upon the fruit. There is no 
better place to raise plums than in the 
poultry-yard, for the poultry are a deadly 
enemy to the curculio—the insect that 
destroys the plum by depositing its eggs 
in the fruit, which hatches into a worm 
that eats the fruit, causing it to decay and 
fall to the ground before it is ripe. 
When trees are used for shade, the 
plowing should be shallow, lest you cut 
too many of the tree-roots, which would 
seriously injure them. 
From these few hints I think you will 
be able to plan and construct or grow 
some sort of shade that will be both beau- 
tiful and useful. 
In building your poultry-yard fences 
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