FOWLS IN THE ORCHARD.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7279, 8 April 1889, Page 2

FOWLS IN THE ORCHARD.

Excepting only when the fruit Is rlps~ ing upon, vines, and trees, It is an GSpeMfjafc practice to keep a good number of fowls running upon the orchard and vineyard. It the fowls are supplied with a sufficiency of green vegetable—such an $a hbfge lettuce, or beet leaves—they wUI nflt attenyjt to touch the green fr. it. Btrt they require flesh or in sect food, and will range the whole place in search for it. Not a caterpillar, or grub that creeps, &>* a beetle that crawls, but will fall a .ietim to the insatiable maw of the domestle cock and hen. It matters not bow,-«mg the flvor grub, the quick eyes o_ fch» poultry will detect it, and the ready «** will provide a sudden grave for it. TM Srcufe which hides beneath the loosened soil by day, and only comes out at n gbt to rava-re every plant, is not iw h-dfng pS because the indomitable hen wU wratch over the. -olKori.jp*M*& The only pest of tßegatg that fowls do not care to tackle is >ene slimy ring* but that can be --onquered by ♦ _-X™_ which does ootobjectto luscious EtoKffed. Theduck,.must M& aarlv in ihe morning, and kept shufcopjM 1.? _n a shed where there l»*^g destroying insects and other aepreoaw* , Sftheorchards and vlneyardtjwnangual number of boys, and the f ?g£ can be eaten when they «f™r do f£g boy would have to be doing the work, whilst J^ n^a Xaa?« -to would leave more .«£ tt . ?°£* g ° aTothe . the nest topayforall thelrke| P ,a^d^ work effecfcuaUy. Even id a WWfo .f J__jS» . ¥ _i r S <3_ % *_«__» _si_ss»^^__.«