Pvultry.-~Fowk ~Sy/iem of Afu/tagawtnt of. 73 j: 



fjcperimcnts, we are likewife inclined to believe that pea-meal employed in the 

 une way pofTdfes a ftill more fattening property, and is at the fame dm- in &amp;gt;re eco 

 nomical, as going much further. A confinement of feven or -eight days in this 

 way will in general be fuffident for effecting this bufinefs of fattening. When 

 kept up long, fowls are extremely apt to be affected with difeaie. Whatever fort of 

 food is made ufe of, free air and a perfecl ftate of cleannefs is effentia! in all the 

 utenfils employed for the purnofe, in order to prevent the food becoming acid, and 

 the fowls affected with difeafe-. 



It is ftated by Mr. Jackfon, in the fixth volume of the&quot; Commercial, Agricultural, 

 and Manufacturer s Magazine,&quot; that he has found that &quot;three pounds of meal, flour, 

 or grain of fuch a fort as does not coft more than one penny a pound, or to the 

 farmer and cottager not even fo much, with water and what other fare the littfc 

 creature can find for itfelf, will feed and fatten a chicken fufficiently from the time 

 of its burfting the (hell till that of its being of a growth and in a condition fuitabie 

 for its being carried to market. &quot; And that the allowance of another penny is 

 fufficient &quot;for the attention and labour which its rearing requires. The prime coft of 

 the egg may be one halfpenny.&quot; Thus, he conceives that even in the vicinity of any 

 great town, &quot; a chicken that fhall bring nine-pence, or rather one milling in themar- 

 ketj.and is, in comparifon with other things worth as much for the ufe of your 

 own table whether you be a rich or poor man, may be produced and reared at 

 the expenfe of four-pence halfpenny.&quot; And it is further contended, that in pro 

 portion as fowls are kept for the confumption of the portion of farinaceous food 

 that is in daily wade about farm-houfes, the expenfe cannot be more than one pen 

 ny ; confequently by attention to this economical mode we may have abundance 

 of poultry at a reafonabte rate. It is alfo ftated that old fowls, &quot; even though fed 

 with food for which money proportionate to the juft market value muft be paid, 

 will by their eggs pay annually at leaft three times the coft of their fubfiftence j&quot; 

 befides the advantage of the manure which they produce. 



An interefting fyftern of management for poultry is ftated by Mr. Young in 

 his Calendar of Hufbandry, as pradtifed by Mrs. Boys of Kent. It is fimply thks : 

 * The labourers wives and families who live on Mr. Boys s farm do the whole; he 

 fupplies them with what offal corn is neceifary, and they return Mrs. Boys the 

 grown fowls ready for market at three-pence each ; fix-pence for turkeys and geefe, 

 and three-pence for ducks j and her account, well kept, ftates a profit of twenty 

 pounds a year, after all expenfes are paid and the family well fupplied. &quot; She ha 5 



