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The Working Collie 
(Continued from page 23) 
results are often won. In one in¬ 
stance in my experience a female 
collie showed such aptitude for cat¬ 
tle driving that she won her way to 
exceptional feats in cutting out her 
own from other stock, and later, on 
unfamiliar ground, bringing in strange 
cattle that had become wild. Again, 
a collie may show great preference 
for trick work. Such dogs are taught 
best at nightfall, when perceptions 
and sense of smell seem keener. 
It is highly significant to note the 
growing appreciation of the thor¬ 
oughbred. Where formerly the sug¬ 
gestion of registration or pedigree 
was scoffed at with the comment, “A 
dog is only a dog,” now one fre¬ 
quently hears the request: “My col¬ 
lie has made good. I want her regis¬ 
tered, that I may prove a thorough¬ 
bred is worth more than an unknown 
cur or a mongrel.” 
To complete the comfort of a coun¬ 
try home, what will give more actual 
pleasure to all members of the house¬ 
hold than a well-trained, trustworthy 
collie? Should the cry of a child be 
heard, its faithful playmate rushes to 
its aid at once. If a single chicken 
or sheep be missing from its accus¬ 
tomed place at nightfall, the news is 
at once taken to headquarters. Evil 
marauders of all kinds are met and 
vanquished by these sturdy guardians, 
and when at night permission is 
granted to one to take his turn at 
that most beloved of all duties, guard¬ 
ing his master’s household, what joy 
and love is shown in the honest face. 
No prouder dog than he who lies 
across the threshold, with assurance 
of safety within, but with one ear 
alert for the least sign of danger 
without. To have assisted in the edu¬ 
cation of such an animal one may feel 
truly proud in saying: “I own a dog 
who is a gentleman.” 
Protecting Chickens from Animals 
T O raise young chickens to matur¬ 
ity it is not enough merely to give 
them proper food and housing: they 
must also be protected from predatory 
animals during the period which is 
really the age of greatest danger. 
This comprises the weeks when they 
occupy the colony house, after having 
outgrown the brooder but before they 
are old enough to be placed in the 
permanent quarters reserved for them 
in the laying house, where they will 
later go to roost and be, consequently, 
out of danger from their animal 
enemies. 
The only satisfactory thing, to do 
is to keep the animals out of the 
chicken house by making it proof 
against them. This may be done in 
several ways, either by the construc¬ 
tion of new houses or through 
changes made in old ones. 
The Animal-Proof House 
A chicken house made entirely of 
concrete over wire laths, with a thick 
floor, is absolutely safe and durable. 
The objections are the expense, as 
compared to other types of houses, 
and dampness, though the latter may 
be largely overcome by the use of cur¬ 
tains at some of the windows instead 
of all glass. A cheaper house that is 
also perfectly rat-proof is built 18" 
above ground, set on posts each one of 
which has an inverted tin pan placed 
over the top before the frame is put 
on. A house like this has the addi¬ 
tional advantage of providing a dry 
scratching room in rainy weather in 
the space beneath the floor. If 1" mesh 
chicken wire is stretched all around 
the outside,- its lower edge placed in a 
trench 1' deep which is then filled 
in to the ground level, and the upper 
edge nailed to the weather-boarding, 
the house will be practically safe from 
rats, etc. Boards placed on the west, 
north and east sides of the sub-floor 
scratching room will keep out snow 
and cold winds. 
An old chicken house can be made 
animal-proof in two ways. The more 
durable and expensive way- is to lay a 
3" or 4" concrete floor on a rock or 
cinder foundation which reaches 4" 
above the natural floor level, bringing 
the concrete well up against the side 
walls and making it especially thick 
at the corners. 
The cheaper way, and one that I 
have found quite satisfactory, con¬ 
sists of lining the floor and the inside 
W'alls, to a height of 1', with chicken 
wire. Last spring all went well with 
the 400 chickens that I hatched in the 
incubator until they were placed in 
the intermediate house. As no disease 
had appeared I confidently expected 
to raise every one of them to maturity. 
Rats and weasels did not enter into 
my calculations because they had 
never troubled me during six years’ 
experience with poultry. 
Practical Application 
A week after the young chickens 
were transferred, one morning twen¬ 
ty-five of them were found dead with 
necks pierced and the blood sucked 
out. Traps were set, but they caught 
nothing. A few days later twenty- 
seven chickens were required to satis¬ 
fy the appetite of the bloodthirsty 
thief, which evidently was a weasel. 
In all, 100 chickens were killed before 
the house could be made proof against 
such depredations in the following 
manner: 
I bought a roll of heavy 1" mesh 
wire 3' wide, as that was the most 
economical width for the space to be 
covered. The scratching material, 
and the layer of sand beneath, were 
removed and heavy boards laid over 
the foundation floor of rocks, in two 
parallel rows 3' apart. The wire was 
cut into three lengths, 2' longer than 
the width of the house, to allow it to 
come up against the wall at both ends. 
Beginning 1' above the floor, the short 
edge of the strip of wire was nailed 
to the end wall, and the long edge 
was nailed against the side wall, 
brought down to the foundation sills 
and securely nailed there. The short 
edge of the second strip was nailed to 
the end wall, brought down to the 
sill and secured there, and the long 
edges of these first two lengths were 
lapped and nailed to the first line of 
boards on the floor, both remaining 
short edges being nailed at the other 
side of the foundation sill and end 
wall. The remaining half of the 
space was treated in the same way, 
and a piece of the wire was also 
brought over the door sill and nailed 
on the outside. The windows were 
already screened. A layer of sand, 
deep enough to cover the wire well, 
was put over the floor and scratching 
straw placed over that. 
Since then not a chicken has been 
lost by animals, nor have the fowls 
scratched up the wire, which was my 
objection to this form of rat-proofing 
when it was first suggested to me. In 
time the wire will rust from dampness 
and have to be relaid, but even so. it 
is the cheapest way of safeguarding 
the chickens. 
Mary R. Cranston 
