472 now TO make tue faem pay. 



a brocxl of chicks or give joii another three dollars worth of 



eggs- 



The raising of poultry on a large scale can be made profitable 



anywhere within a day's roach of any of our large cities. We 

 uro templed here to condense a little account of poultry raising 

 on the farm belonging to the Metropolitan Hotel, of New York. 

 The farm is located in West Chester County, and about twenty 

 acres of rough land, worth little for tillage, all devoted to 

 poultrv. The undergrowth is allowed to grow ; the turkeys 

 have the woods to range in, and there is a pond for the ducks 

 and geese. During the summer they are all allowed to range 

 at will ; but fowls once accustomed to a roosting and laying 

 place will usually return to it. For Avinter quarters, there are 

 two houses. Lime and plaster are used very freely to absorb 

 the ammonia, and compost the droppings. The sloping shelves 

 under the roosts are swept every week and newly sprinkhsd 

 with lime. All this valuable manure is barrelled and applied to 

 corn, producing the biggest corn in the country, and sixty tons 

 of hay froni twenty acres. 



We quote from the Neiu York World: — "The eggs pay 

 for food and attendance, leaving the sales of poultry clean 

 profit. Mr. L. says he can produce a thousand pounds of 

 poultry cheaper than he can the same weight of mutton, beef, 

 or purk. He finds as much. i)rorit from turkeys, and often 

 greater tlian from hens. They often require more attention, 

 but some years ho has fifty to sell, for which he gets five 

 tlollars each, besides a great many more, for which he gets 

 .Tom one to three dollars. Just now he has three thousand 

 young chickens, several hundred young turkeys, two hundred 

 hens laying every day or hatching broods, and handsome pla- 

 toons of ducks and goslings, probably about four tliousand in 

 all, of d .mestic fowls, each of which, on an average, is, or will 



