OU OUR DOMESTIC FOWL?. 



majority of the remaining tliird seldom are 

 nble to procure an ample daily supply of good 

 butchers' meat, or obtain the luxury of poultry 

 from year to year. On the continent of 

 Europe, the population is still in a worse con- 

 dition ; — fish, soups made from herbs, a stuff 

 called bread, made from every variety of grain, 

 black and brown, hard and sour, such as no 

 Englishman could eat, — olives, chestnuts, the 

 pulpy saccharine fruits ; roots, stalks, and 

 leaves, and not unfrequently the bark of 

 trees; — sawdust, blubber, train-oil, with frogs 

 and snails, make up and constitute a good 

 part of the food of the greater portion of 

 the inhabitants of Europe. There is no other 

 cause for this than the excessive ignorance 

 of its population." 



We think that Mr. Bucknell draws his pic- 

 ture a little too strong ; and we cannot help sus- 

 pecting that his Eccaleobion would not prove a 

 panacea for the catalogue of evils he enumer- 

 ates, though one were kept for the wholesale 

 hatching of fowls in every village. In France, 

 M. Reaumur pursued a long and varied series 

 of experiments on the artificial means of hatch- 

 ing the eggs of poultry, the details of which 

 he naxTates at full, but which would here 



