748 Live Stock. Poultry. Common Fowls Breeds of. 



kinds of each fort of which are thofe of clover, parfley, endive, dandelion, cabbage- 

 leaves, carrot-tops, &c. with good green rouen or clover-hay, pea-chaff, oats, pol 

 lard, and bran. They ufually breed at the age of fix months, and moftly three or 

 four times in the year, efpecially when kept fufficiently warm in the winter feafon ; 

 at this time a little dry hay fhould be placed in the hutch : the young may be 

 weaned at fix or eight weeks old, and the buck admitted. The young rabbits 

 ought to be carefully feparated when they become of any fize, and never be fuffer- 

 ed to be in any degree crowded together, as in fuch cafes they foon become 

 difeafed. 



Poultry. This is a fpecies of flock which, from the trouble and uncertainty that 

 attends it, is of doubtful advantage, except in particular fituations and circumflan- 

 ces. The term poultry comprehends feveral different forts of birds that have been 

 confidered as flock for the farm-yard. 



Common Fowls. Of thefe there are various breeds, as the game breed, the Englijh 

 or white breed, the Poland or black breed, the Darking breed, the Shagbag breed t the 

 Malay breed. The two fir ft of thefe breeds are much fmaller than the others* As 

 this fort of flock, when under a proper fyflem of management, affords advantage 

 both in the eggs and the chickens, it may be necefTary to obferve that the game and 

 Poland breeds are in general the befl layers, but that in refpecl to the fize of the 

 eggs the larger breeds are preferable. As fitting and breeding fowls, the Dark- 

 ing and other large breeds are probably the befl; but in what regards the colour, 

 quality, and flavour of the flefh, the game and the white breeds are fuppofed by thofe 

 who indulge in this fort of food to be the mofl delicate* 



Jnthe management of poultry much depends upon proper conveniencies being 

 provided for them. The method of conflru&ing houfes for this ufe has been 



- 1500 



- 86&quot;9 0- 



$31 



cr 47 . per rent, on the capital. 



4 Take it how you will r he thinks it explains the reafon for fo many of thefe nuifances remaining-, 

 The inveflment of a fma.ll capital yields an intereft that nothing elfe will ; and thus the occupier will 

 fee f-ure never to convert thm to better ufes. But what fays the public intereft? here are only 2001. 

 xpenfes, to 6001, rent T what i$ the population, the induftry, the improvement ! The landlord gets 

 tbue luweft of rents; the tenant makes a. good profit j they divide all, and the reft cf the world ar* 

 little th better for them,&quot; 



