4S0 now TO MAKE THE FARM PAY. 



keep u\ good flesh. There is nothing like the game cock, for 

 keeping order in the flock and for keeping hawks, cats, skunks, 

 and all other enemies at bay. The black Spanish fowls are 

 good layers, but do not make good meat, and are not to be 

 recommended. The Dorkings are good, and no one can be 

 amiss in purchasing a few eggs and raising a cock of tliis breed. 

 The Cochin' crossed on the common fowl improves the latter, but 

 we should prefer investing our money in something else. The 

 Bramahs are much better. The Polands are also good layers 

 but, like the Hamburgs, do not set. The Leghorns also como 

 in the same class, but are of smaller size. We hope that no 

 one of our readers will ever have the " hen fever." Wo recom 

 mend no one to buy a stock of any of the above fowls. But 

 what we do recommend to every man that cultivates an acre of 

 ground is, improve your stock by an admixture of some one or 

 more of the above breeds. Make it a rule to get a new cock 

 every year. If your fowls are too small, get a large breed. If 

 poor layers, get a Hamburg or a game cock. If they are not 

 hardy, and none of them make good mothers, get a game or a 

 Bramah. It will pay; having been surrounded by poultry 

 more than ten years, we insist that it will pay. 



The Diseases of Poultry are caused by breeding, filth, im- 

 pure water, lack of gravel, and close confinement. Pure water 

 is absolutely essential to the health of fowls. When ranging 

 in the summer they will go to running streams or the barn- 

 yard trough, but in the winter they suffer for lack of fresh 

 water. In the plan of a poultry house, given in a picceding 

 page, A is a pipe on the bottom of the coop three feet below the 

 level of the ground, running into a keg set in the ground, with 

 an outlet on the other side. This pipe comes from the barn- 

 /ard trough, and as long as there is water in it the hens are 

 supplied. As this poultry house is built against one of the 



