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front, out of doors, and crammed them with all the whole corn 

 they would eat thrice a day, with fresh water, and the eighth 

 day killed, and found them fat. As near as I could judge — 

 comparing them with others killed from the same hrood — the 

 grain was one ounce each per day, or one-half a pound in eight 

 days. As they were my small breed, weighing only two pounds 

 each, this is certainly a great gain. 



From long experience, I am satisfied that whole grain is best 

 for feeding and fattening. It is more natural food, as the habits 

 of birds, and the structure of the stomach indicate, and the fowl 

 will be less liable to disease. The vigor of the system will 

 insure rapid fattening, when cooped and crammed. But care 

 must be taken lest they be confined too long ; ten or twelve days 

 is sufficient, and a longer time will be likely to destroy health. 



I should state, that I prefer Western flat corn, to our flint 

 corn. In my experiments, I used sound Western mixed corn. 



J. H. Temple. 



Framingham, September, 1866. 



Statement of Lewis Jones. 



The twelve fowls which I present for exhibition are of the 

 Leghorn and Black Hamburg varieties. Three of them are 

 about sixteen months old, the rest were hatched about the first 

 of May last, so they are a little over four months old. Some of 

 the pullets have already commenced laying. They are a very 

 tame kind of fowl, and may well be termed everlasting layers, 

 as my old fowls have not stopped laying since they commenced 

 last fall. I keep some native fowls to do the sitting and bring 

 up the chickens. 



I kept last winter seventeen fowls : fifteen hens and two 

 roosters. Five of the hens were natives. From the fifteen hens 

 for six months, commencing the first day of November, and 

 ending the last day of April, I sold seventy-nine dozen of eggs, 

 and sat five dozen. I kept no account of what were used in the 

 family. The eggs sold averaged about forty-five cents per dozen. 



79 dozen of eggs, at 45 cents per dozen, . $35 55 



Sat four hens on four dozen of eggs, and raised 



36 chickens, worth, ..... 36 00 



$71 55 



