Papular Opinion, 3 



holds with respect to this country, wliere 

 ihe warmest and dryest soils arc best adap^ 

 ted to this production, more especially 

 of the chicken and the turkey. 



POPULAR OPINIOK. 



It has been a general and popular topic 

 ©f declamation, that in former and pra- 

 sumed happier tunes, our small farmers' 

 wives raised a superior quantity of poul 

 try, to that which has been produced of 

 late years ; a position, at best, very ques- 

 tionable, since poultry has never yet ris^n 

 in price, beyond the proportion of other 

 articles of food, and since the demand of 

 the markets has been supplied in as full a 

 measure as formerly. Suppose a heath 

 or common, on which poultry has been 

 customarily bred, is inclosed and improved 

 into farms, is it not probable that, gene- 

 rally at least, as large a quantity of poui- 

 try is reared, as up n the land in its fonrier 

 state of waste and producing no corii, a 

 food so absolutely necessary for that kind of 



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