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In feeding poultry, quite as much advantage will be derived from 

 the cooking or steaming of grain, as follow^s from the adoption 

 of the practice u^ith any other stock of the farm. 



Poultry yards, except for temporary use at planting time, are 

 decidedly objectionable ; and, in a rather extensive experience in 

 market-gardening, I have concluded that at no time during the 

 year do fowls do so much harm as good in the garden. In large 

 fields the good that they do in consuming insects, much more than 

 compensates for their slight injury to the crops ; but, of course, 

 in small house-gardens, where a few square yards of freshly set 

 plants cannot be spared, the injury that they do is proportionately 

 much greater, and for a little while they had better be kept out of 

 the garden. 



