SHADE TREES AND EVERGREENS 
THREE SUGGESTIONS FOR FARMS 
Where chickens can not be allowed to run at 
large, their yards should be shaded. It is a well- 
known fact that eggs produced in quarters which 
become overheated do not show a high percentage 
of fertility. We often hear cautions against too 
much confinement for breeding hens, but the real 
trouble lies not so much in lack of room as in over¬ 
heating. A dozen shade trees will remedy this 
condition. The thickest-growing kinds should be 
planted, as the chickens like cool, dark retreats. 
Do not depend on low, thin-foliaged trees that 
let wavering blotches of sunlight through. Such 
shade is not cool. 
In pastures it is well to plant shade trees if there 
are none growing. Cattle or horses will not eat all 
the time. They like to lie down in cool places 
after they have grazed a while. If they have this 
chance, they make good use of the grass they 
consume, and produce more pounds of meat or of 
milk. The darker the shade is for them, the better, 
for it helps them to get away from flies, and they 
seem to like it better. 
The third suggestion is for a farm timber-belt. 
Ordinarily this is called a wood-lot, but that is a 
One of those cool, protected places that we all like. Nine Sugar and 
Norway Maples, 8 feet high, and two Spruces 5 feet high. If you had this 
place, would you take $8 for the trees? They cost a little less. In one case 
$1,300 was added to the sale price of a Pennsylvania home in four years 
by $8 worth of trees. 
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