i Poidlt'y, a Liaury. 



stock ? In fact, it is open to the observation 

 of every one, that poultry has never been in 

 tins country a favourite or prevailing article 

 of diet, with the lower or middling orders 

 of the people ; thence our farmers, whe- 

 ther little or great, could never be more pro- 

 fitably employed, whether for themselves or 

 the comm,unity, than in the production of 

 the more substantial articles of food : in the 

 mean time, the demand for the luxury of 

 poultry never fails to be satisfied to the ut- 

 most extent, and a decline of price in that 

 article, will be the natural consequence of 

 a general decline in the meat market. 



