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usual weight for full grown males, is from ten pounds and a 

 half to twelve pounds; females, from eight to ten pounds. 

 They are generally quite leggy, standing some twenty-six 

 inches high, and the Hens twenty-two inches. A first cross 

 with the Shanghae would make a very large and valuable bird 

 for the table, not for breeding from. 



Mr. Taggart, of Northumberland, Pa., is disposed to think 

 favourably of some Chittagongs he received from me, with a 

 pair of Shanghaes. They are all yet quite young. He says : 



" Of all large breeds, it strikes me the Chittagongs are most 

 prolific. My Brown Pullet began to lay on the 19th of Octo- 

 ber, when not much over five months old. In twenty-two 

 days she laid eighteen Eggs, (or, I may say nineteen, for one 

 was double,) and then began to sit. Her laying was after this 

 fashion : 3, 3, 4, 3, 5. No doubt I could have kept her at it, 

 by changing her nest from time to time. It is extraordinary 

 that a Pullet of her age should lay lay so fast at this time of 

 year. After incubating a week, she grew very sick, and I was 

 forced to break her Eggs and take her off. When she began 

 to lay she weighed six and three-quarter pounds, now only five 

 pounds. But she is recovering. 



" The Shanghae and the six-toed Chittagong Pullets are grow- 

 ing finely the first draws five and three-quarters, the other 

 six pounds. But the Stags seem to have 'paused, the Chitta- 

 gong at eight and a quarter pounds, the ..Shanghae at six and 

 three-quarter pounds he has always remained thin. I im- 

 pute their present slow progress to their hard service. Quite 

 a number of my Hens are laying, or preparing to lay, and these ' 

 two gentlemen have a monopoly of the business." 



Vide Mr. Taggart' s letters herein, for further remarks on 

 this variety. 



