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choicest and most salubrious viands, will 

 declare for the natural mode of feeding ; 

 and in that view, a feeding-yard, gravel- 

 led and sow^n with the grasses already de- 

 scribed, the room being open all day, for 

 the fowls to retire at pleasure, will have a 

 decided preference, as the nearest ap- 

 proach to the barn-door system. 



Sized store fowls have been intended 

 thus far; but the above feeding-rooms are 

 well calculated for fattening the younger 

 chickens, which may be put up as soon as 

 the hen shall have quitted her charge, and 

 so to speak, before they have run off their 

 sucking flesh. For generally when well 

 kept and in health, they will be in fine 

 condition and full of flesh, at that period, 

 which flesh is afterwards expended in the 

 exercise of foraging for food, and in the 

 increase of stature, and it may be a work 

 of some time afterwards, to recover it, and 

 more especially in young cocks, and all 

 those which stand high upon the \eg. In 

 fact, all those which appear to have long 

 legs, should be fattened from the hen, to 

 make the best of them^ it being extremely 



