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Show of like arc pretty well fixed. They j;row and develop with the idea that ) 1 1 ' y r-;in not fly and liny not not try j when their wings grow out ai;ain. j It will not Iii: nifci-hiiiiry to crop I Iii-iii again, an long as they arc not mov'ed from place to plaae. Tin; writer lias a flock of one, two, anil three year old leghorns in a small run with a solid board fence only five feet high and has never Keen one of these hens on top of the fence or over in the neighbors garden. liyion Alder, Utah Agricultural Kx pei inieiit Station. fliers under poor treatment. The small nervous active breeds usually develop the habit of flying and are then good fliers and hard to confine. Hut these, even (lie Leghorns of which we hear so much can be kept at home by good feeding- and proper training. The time to begin this training is when they and all animals learn most readily. When the young pullets first begin to fly about the yard or up on boxes, barrels, etc., before they have learned to fly over the i fence, the flight feathers of one wing should be clipped with a pair of scissors. This will be when they are about six or eight weeks old. ' Do not clip the feathers so close that they will bleed or other troubles may develop. Feed them well and especially see that they have a fresh supply of green feed daily and clean fresh water or milk always available. When near the pullets move about quietly and frighten them as little as possible. Keep the fences in good repair and see that there are no holes. When the pullets are about twelve to fourteen weeks old or after the blooming molt they have a new coat of feathers and it will be necessary to clip the flight feathers of the same wing again. These feathers will not grow out again for about a year and by that time their habits ADVISED TO KEEP PEACE WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS Many quarrels have been started between two neighbors by a flock of nervous flighty chickens in one yard and an attempt at gardening in the other with a poor or even a good -fence between. After a hen has developed the habit of flying and finds so many delicacies in the neighbors yard, of which she is deprived at home, it is almost impossible to keel? here where she belongs. The larged breeds of fowls are usually easy to confine because of their sluggish or lazy disposition, but they sometimes develop into good |