HOUSE AND GARDEN 
May, 1915 
321 
G. D. TILLEY 
Naturalist 
around after the breeding season is over, 
unless, to be sure, they are good enough 
to carry over to the next season. It is 
advisable, also, to sell off whatever old 
hens may be left as fast as they stop laying, 
and sometimes it is just as well to get rid 
of the younger birds from now on when 
they become persistently broody. 
Hawks, rats, skunks and marauding 
cats do a great amount of damage at this 
season. When the chickens are on range 
the hawks are likely to get many of them, 
and light-colored chickens are more often 
the victims than those which have darker 
feathers. It is a help to have piles of 
brush to which the chickens can flee when 
danger threatens, and if a few guinea hens 
are kept on the place they will be certain 
to give warning when hawks appear. 
When carefully shut up at night the 
chickens are safe from skunks and a 
brooder house may be made rat-proof by 
the use of cement, but in any event the 
rodents can be disposed of by the use of 
poison, if need be. Sometimes a dog will 
keep them away. Thieving cats are a 
great nuisance in many sections and hard 
to deal with. Usually the right kind of 
dog will secure immunity, but occasionally 
it is necessary to trap the cats. 
If there is plenty of grass the chicks 
will need no other green ration early in the 
season, but after a time the grass will be¬ 
come too tough for them. Lettuce and 
other garden produce may be fed, but 
probably there is nothing better to grow, 
especially for the poultry, than dwarf 
Essex rape. It is ready in a few weeks 
from planting, and if only the leaves are 
broken off the plants will continually re¬ 
new themselves. A spring planting and 
another in July will give green food all 
summer. Rape seed may be sown broad¬ 
cast, but it is better to grow the plants in 
rows and to keep them cultivated. Tall 
Scotch kale planted now will give an 
abundance of greens in late fall, long after 
the frost has cut down everything else in 
the garden. 
It is poor policy to keep chicks of dif¬ 
ferent ages together or to let chickens and 
ducks run in the same yard. The big 
chickens will crowd their weaker brothers 
and sister and the ducks will foul the 
drinking water. Of course, it does not 
matter much if flocks are mixed when 
there is plenty of range, provided that the 
smaller and weaker birds are allowed to 
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