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should be placed in several different lay- 

 ers and often changed. A sufficient num- 

 ber of troughs for both water and food, 

 sliould be placed around, that the stock may 

 feed with as little interruption as possible 

 from each other, and perches in the same 

 proportion should be furnished for those 

 birds which are inclined to perch, which 

 few of them will desire, after they have 

 begun to fatten, but which helps to keep 

 them easy and contented u:^til that period. 

 In this mode fowls may be fattened to the 

 highest pitch, and yet preserved in a healthy 

 state, their flesh being equal in quality, 

 to that of the barn-door fowl. I am aware 

 that to suffer fattening fowls to perch, is 

 contrary to the general practice, since it is 

 supposed to bend and deform the breast- 

 bone ; but as soon as they become heavy and 

 indolent from feeding, they will rather incline 

 to rest in the straw ; and the liberty of 

 perching on the commencement of their 

 kooping has a tendency to accelerate that 

 period, when they are more inclined to 

 rest on tlie floor. Fowls, moreover, of 



