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able poultry-feeders in and about London, 

 granting there be any such, exclusive of the 

 goose-feeders, they must be sought, I ap» 

 prehend, among the poulterers. 



A critic in one of the Magazines, ob- 

 jects to my position, that " no live stock is 

 less liable to disease than the rabbit, with 

 regular and careful attention." I repeat 

 the assertion, coupled with another, name- 

 ly, that without regular and careful atten- 

 tion, no live stock is more precarious. 



May 27, 1816. 



Letter of the Right Hon, Sir John Sinclair, 

 Bart, to Messrs, Sherwood and Co. 



(copy.) 

 Gentlemen, 



I have read over Mr. Moubray's Trea- 

 tise on Domestic Poultry, which seems to 

 be the best work hitherto printed on that 

 subject ; but it might be much improved 

 by a careful examination of all the County 

 Reports, and other recent agricultural pub- 



