Customs of other Countries. 



CUSTOMS. 



Ix Britain, where a gi-eater quantity of 

 butcher's meat is consumed, than probably 

 ill any other part of the world, poultry 

 has ever been deemed a luxury, and con- 

 sequently not reared in such considerable 

 quantities as in France, Egypt, and some 

 other countries, where it is used more as 

 an^pecessary article of food, than as a de- 

 licacy for the sick, or a luxury for tl\e 

 table. In France, poultry forms an im- 

 portant part of the live stock of the far- 

 mer, and it has been said of tliat country, 

 the poultry yards sup})ly a much greater 

 quantity of food to the gentleman, the 

 wealthy tradesman, and the Sruhstantial 

 farmer, than the shambles do ; and it is 

 well known, that in Egypt, it has been from 

 time immemorial a consiilerable branch 

 of rural economy, to raise domestic poultry 

 for sale, hatched in hovens by artificial heat„ 

 The warmer climates are far more favour- 

 able than ours, for the purpose of raising 

 poultry, and the same rule necessarily 



