124 A new Method of rearing Poultry. 



If this information should be so fortunate as to merit the 

 approbation of the Society, I shall consider myself highly 

 honoured^ and my time as having been usefully employed. 

 I am, sir, your most obedient servant, 



Ha>fnah D'Oylev. 



Sion-hill, near Nortliallcrton, 

 Nov. 28, 1S06. 



To Charlks Taylor, M.D. Sec. 



SIR, 



AccoRDLNG to your request, I have sent you a model of. 

 an artificial mother. The most convenient size for forty or 

 fifty young chickens is about lifteen inches long, ten deep, 

 four high in front, and two at the back ; it is placed in a 

 long wicker cage against a warm wall, the heat at about 

 eighty degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, till the chick- 

 ens are a few days old, and used to the comfort of il, after 

 which time they run under when they want rest, and ac- 

 quire warmth by crowding together. I find it advisable to 

 have two or three chickens among them of about a week old 

 to teach them to peck and eat. The meat and water is given 

 them in small troughs fixed to the outside of the cage, and 

 a little is strewed along from the artificial mother, as a train 

 to the main deposit. It would have given me great pleasure 

 to have been able to send a specimen of my superior feed 

 and management, if the season had been rather more ad- 

 vanced, for I think it is not possible for turkeys and chickens 

 to weigh heavier, be whiter, or altogether better fed than 

 mine are. 



After a certain age, they are allowed their liberty, living 

 chiefly on steamed potatoes, and being situated tolerably 

 secure from the depredations of men and foxes, are per- 

 mitted to roost in trees near the house. 



I have the honour to be, sir, 



your most obedient servant, 

 Sion-hill, near Northruierton, HaNNAII D'OvLEY. 



May 11, 1807. 



SIR, 



According to vour request, I herewith send you a rough 



dketch oi" the apparatus I use, which probably will convey 



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