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Rczneivcrs Re'uicx'cd, Feb, 



thor-of a work which fhonld not be exclufively liii own, or to 

 aecome chucking capon to the chickens hatched by another bird *. 



The critic notices that the engravings mentioned in the title, 

 turn out to be but one, and that miferably executed. He is in 

 the rii^bt j there is but one, ?.n odavo engraving of a water mea- 

 dow, containing two or three dill:m(i:l: tigures, marked plates ift, 

 ad; ^d, and inferred to as fuch in t!je defcription. Three plati-s 

 ^vouid anpear to have been mteuded, but economy had been con- 

 fulted, and the book is proportionally cheap. 



If you confider my purpofe as laudable, in thus endc^avouring 

 to refcue this work from that unmerited oblivion, iiUo which it 

 rs ready to be plunged witli fuch as may be difpofed to take their 

 'charaacr of it from tlie Monthly Iltriew, you will publifli this, 

 znd oblige your conftant reader, 



Nov. 1803.. RusTicus Akglicanus. 



* I allude to a practice that may be of use where farmi:g is alter- 

 -lately devoted to the raising of poultry, and their productions, for the 

 < ousumpt of great towns \ a mode of farming which, I am informed, 

 h beginning to take place in the vicinity of your ^cots metropolis. 



A capon is pitched upon as the most economical broods-mother, 

 being of large bilk of body, affordii^.g great extent of cover. His 

 breast and belly are plucked almost bare of feathers ; he is then shut 

 up in a uarrov/ dark place of confinement, and the chickens hatched 

 by two or three clocking hens, are i>itroduccd to him. /J "he heat ema- 

 nating from his body, attracts the chickens toAvards him, for fostering 

 warmth *, and he too feels comfortable, from the application of theix 

 .%varm bodies to his naked and cold breast and belly. Reciprocal 

 pkasure, thus mutually communicated, attaches them to each other, 

 uid.he soon le-arns to perform all the offices of a mother. 



BRANCH 



