CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER IV. 



Fecundity of the hen— Breeding— Second broods— Ovary 

 —Desire of laying— Nests— Eggs— Hatching— Good and 

 bad sitters — Fecundation of the egg— Foetus of the chick, 

 and its progress to life — Incautious modes of acting. p. 85 



CHAPTER V. 



Management of Chickens — Cribs — Food and water — Crop 

 and Gizzard — Separation of the Hen and Chickens — Roost- 

 ing — Cost and Value of Chicks and Fowls . . .116 



CHAPTER VI. 



Feeding of Poultry— Store Fowls — Modes of Feeding — Po- 

 tatoes — Kitchen Offals — Insects — Yerminieres — Experi- 

 ments — Grain, Quantities and Species of — Buckwheat- 

 Indian Corn — Barley and Oats — Boiled Corn — Rice. 1 30 



CHAPTER VII. 



Spring Chickens, Cockrels, and Pullets — Fatting of grown 

 Fowls — Cooping — Modes of fatting in Sussex and Berk- 

 shire — Operation of Cramming — French Mode — Coqs- 

 vierges and Poulets a la Reine — Sucking Chickens — Old 

 Fowls — Pillaw — Observations on Cramming . . 160 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Economy and aliment of eggs — Composition, weight and 

 quality — Number laid by hens — Expense of maintaining 

 fowls — Comparative cost of poultry and butcher's meat — 

 New-laid and stale eggs — Experiments on the preserva- 

 tion of eggs — Winter laying — Cock's eggs . . . 1 73 



