532 Feeding Turkeys, Geese, and Ducks jor the London Market. 



and value for one year of my poultry, as regards the female 

 stock managed as herein stated. In some instances fancy prices 

 were obtained, and prizes taken on exhibition, which, of course, 

 are included in the value. No account of the quantity of food 

 consumed was taken, as I had no intention of offering a statement 

 to the public. It was, however, all grown on the farm, except 

 about 4/. worth. 



104 hens produced 13,739 eggs, exclusive of those set ; they 

 reared 372 chickens, besides hatching the ducks and guinea- 

 fowls. 



5 turkey hens reared 74 young, 



6 geese reared 58 goslings. 

 Ducks hatched under hens : 79. 



Guinea-fowls hatched under hens : 42. Reared and sold. 



Attendance : a boy and myself. 



Total value of the above, 190Z. 175. 8f/. 



N.B. — 7 store ducks kept ; the guinea-fowls were the produce 

 of one pair. 



Manor Farm, I^ufford, Ollerion. 



XIV. — Feeding Turkeys, Geese, and Ducks for the London 

 Market. By Heney H. Dixon. 



The Eastern Counties may be said to have pretty nearly a mono- 

 poly of our English turkey raising and feeding. Hen-wives 

 are generally " afraid to meddle with them " on the score of 

 delicacy ; but if the requisite food and attendance are not found 

 to be thrown away in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, &c., why 

 should they be elsewhere, except in an essentially damp climate ? 

 They must be tenderly reared and not " dragged up," as the 

 saying is. The Norfolk turkey is black, with a few white 

 spots on its wings ; and in no part of the county is the breed 

 preserved in higher purity than at Sir William Ffolkes's. 

 The Cambridgeshire turkey is of a bronze grey, and rather 

 longer in the leg and bigger in the bone. Very few white 

 ones are to be seen, as they are supposed, like a white long-horn 

 cow, to be more delicate. The adherents of the Norfolk blacks 

 consider that they lay on more flesh, and that it is whiter and 

 finer in texture than that of the Cambridgeshire bronze; but as 

 a rule the latter sort predominates in the East Anglian stubbles, 

 and comes to the greatest weight. A good Aprihhatched cock 

 at Christmas should average about IS lbs. in his feathers, and a 

 hen.-bird about 10 or 11 lbs. in November, with ordinary feeding ; 



