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of England most productive in poultry, are 

 Norfolk, Surry, Sussex, Herts, Devon, 

 ' and Somersetshire; Tke largest stock 

 of poultry which I ever saw upon an En- 

 glish farm, was upon one of two or three 

 hundred acres in Herts, many years since, 

 amounting it appeared to many hundred 

 head. It was dry and shingly land, like 

 the sea beach, and I found on enquiry, that 

 scarcely any care was taken of the breed- 

 ing stock, or shelter afforded them, yet they 

 multiplied in a most extraordinary degree, 

 and preserved a constant state of good 

 health. Upon a boggy or clayey soil, un- 

 der such circumstances, they would have 

 died like rotten sheep. In short, land pro- 

 per for sheep, is generally also adapted to 

 the successful keeping of poultry and rab- 

 bits. 



But as the rearing of both is necessary, 

 upon soils and in situations of every de- 

 scription, it will be most to the purpose to 

 point out those precautions which must be 

 recurred to, in order to ensure success 

 upon the least favourable. t)n such, then, 



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