FOWLS AND THE GARDEN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 141, 7 August 1911, Page 6

FOWLS AND THE GARDEN.

The present is the time for a great deal of digging work in the gardens, and when this has been done the hens will ho found of the greatest help in clearing the ground and ridding it of slugs, worms, and other things of a like liaturo. Fowls do considerable damage'during the summer and autumn, but just now all they can do is beneficial, and anyone who has watched them when turned into a place where digging operations are going on, will have noticed the zest with which they search out worms. Ttase and the slugs do a great deal of harm to vegetables, and how to get rid of them has often puzzled gardeners. Not only do tho fowls do good to the ground, but they derive benefit from the exercise, and from tlie worms they consume. It is, however, advisable not to allow the fowls access to the garden til! tho afternoon of each day. If let out in the morning they soon get tired working, and are apt to wamkr out of bounds. Some farmers have made a practice of allowing their poultry to wander freely about newly-ploughed fields for the same purpose, and ir would he well it this plan wore more largely adopted. Where there is no garden, a part of the run can he dug up, and the birds will appreciate the efforts thus made for their benefit. Canterbury A. and P. Journal.