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among the corn plants when the corn has grown 
sufficiently high. The chicks will not harm 
the corn, so two ends can be accomplished by 
this means. Others provide this shade by 
gathering old brush together and making an 
artificial shade in this manner. During the hot 
days of summer, the chicks will suffer from the 
heat to a marked degree if exnosed to the hot 
rays of the sun. An ideal method used on many 
farms is to place the chicks in the orchard, 
where there is an orchard, and let the chicks 
roam in the shade of the orchard trees. 
Where birds are necessarily confined to a 
small yard, one method that has been worked 
out satisfactorily, is to fence the yard off into 
two or more divisions, and to plow up the land. 
Then various crops can be sown at different 
intervals, so that when one range, or division, 
is consumed by the chicks, they can be turned 
into another division where the forage crop is 
up and ready to be consumed. As soon as the 
chicks are turned out of the first lot, this lot 
can be immediately plowed up again, and some 
more seeds planted, so that this range will be 
ready for the chicks when the second lot fur¬ 
nishes no more nourishment for them. It might 
