EARLY CHICKENS. 



the warm room ; and within a week, I expect to have two more 

 clutches hatched out. 



In my stove-room, I am careful to have the temperature 

 kept regularly at fifty-five degrees ;* and, by means of my air- 

 tight stove this is easily accomplished. 



My young stock thrives remarkably well, and, so far, I have 

 lost but one Chick, and this was from an accident, and not dis- 

 ease. Having access to the sand-bath before described, at all 

 times, they kept themselves entirely free from vermin, and, 

 in consequence, feather and generally improve faster than is 

 usually the case. 



By giving this subject attention early in the season, say, 

 commence setting Hens the early part of October, I am well 

 persuaded any one may raise one to two hundred Chickens, 

 that can readily be sold in the market for seventy-five cents to 

 one dollar per pair, in the months of March, April, May, and 

 June. To a farmer, there will be no additional cost :%s before 

 remarked, the waste pieces around his wood pile will be ample 

 fuel ; and he will experience no difficulty in finding one of his 

 men ready to undertake the superintendence of the room, (it is 

 a nice, warm job for cold weather,) and also to attend to the 

 little business he is expected to look after during the winter. 



The only additional cost to the Fancier, will be six dollars for 

 one cord of hickory wood, which will be all he can consume in 

 an air-tight stove during the winter, or, at all events, the above- 

 named quantity of fuel will keep a room twelve feet square 

 at a temperature of fifty -five degrees through the winter months. 



My only object in writing the above, is to endeavour to at- 

 tract the attention of those who raise Fowls for profit or fancy 

 to a branch of the subject heretofore much neglected, and if 

 I succeed, even to a small extent, I will feel abundantly com- 

 pensated. 



* I should prefer a temperature of not less than 60 nor more 

 than 70. Ed. 



