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months, allowing more time than is neces- 

 sary to hatch eight successive broods of 

 chickens, ducks, and turkies, making on the 

 whole, yearly, three thousand and eighty-eight 

 broods. The number in each hatching is not 

 always equal, from the occasional difficulty 

 of obtaining a sufficient number of eggs, 

 which may be stated at a medium between 

 the two extremes, of forty and eighty 

 thousand to each oven. The Bermean con- 

 tracts to return, in a living brood to his em- 

 ployer, two thirds of the number of eggs 

 «et in the ovens ; all above being his own 

 perquisite, in addition to his salary for the 

 season, which is thirty to forty crowns ex- 

 clusive of his board. According to report, 

 tlie crop of poultry thus artificially raised in 

 Egypt, was seldom if ever below that ratio, 

 making the enormous annual amount of 

 ninety-two millions six hundred and forty 

 thousand. It is obvious that the apparent 

 grand difficulty of obtaining a sufficient 

 number of eggs, must subsist chiefly, or 

 entirely, in the infancy of such an underta- 

 king, and tliat its progress must infinitely ex- 



