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tiirkies fattened to weigh twenty, and even 

 thirty pounds each ; and Buffon relates that 

 the wild turkey of America, has been known 

 to attain the weight of sixty pounds ; but 

 I have never made any heavier than fifteen 

 pounds, ready for the spit. 



Turkies are the most tender and difficult 

 to rear of any of our domestic fowls ; but 

 witli due care and attention, which, rightly 

 considered, in all things give the least 

 trouble, they may be produced and multi- 

 plied with little or no loss, and the same 

 mav be averred with all truth, of the rest 

 of our domestic iowIm, and animals in ge- 

 neral ; the losses and vexations annuallv 

 deplored, arising almost entirely from ig- 

 norance and carelessness united hand in 

 hand. Turkies as well as geese, under a 

 judicious system, may be rendered an object 

 of a certain degree of consequence to the 

 farmer. 



AQUATIC FOWLS. 



Under a regular system, it would be 



