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best food. Besides all this, I have been 

 very unsuccessful in my few attempts to fat- 

 ten fovrls by cramming — they seemed to 

 loathe the crams, to pine, and to lose the 

 iiesh they vrere put up with, instead of ac- 

 quiring fat ; and where crammed fowls do 

 succeed, they must necessarily, in the height 

 of their fat, be in a state of disease. 



Sale and prices. At Christmas, IS04, 

 a Sussex farmer received from his salesman 

 io London, seven shillings each, for one lot 

 of CAPONS, for another, ten shillings each. 

 The best of them weighed eight pounds 

 each. At the same time, two India ships 

 took out as stores, one hundred and fifty 

 dozen of hens. No cocks were admitted, 

 on account of the danger of their fighting, 

 nor any young poultry, as they will not 

 stand a sea voyage. 



Prices at the London Poulterers, Decem- 

 ber I8th, 1817. Turkies, 16 to 21s. each ; 

 Fowls of 21bs. 3s. 6d. ; Geese, 7 to 9s. 6d. ; 

 Ducks and Mallards, 7 to 9s. Fine tame 

 Pigeons, S to As. a pair ; common dove- 

 house and wild Pigeons 9 to 12s. pr. dozen. 



