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Do not, therefore, follow such advice, however 

 plausible it may appear ; but, if any room or 

 shed which you may have to spare for the 

 purpose, should be more spacious than wanted 

 for the fowls which you maintain, then, par- 

 tition off a portion of it just suited to their 

 kind and number. 



Having said thus much, we shall now 

 briefly describe some of those superior poul- 

 try-yards from which plans and improvements 

 may be drawn according to the taste and 

 intentions of those who mean to erect them, 

 more with a view to the amusement arising 

 from rearing the animals than to economy in 

 family expenditure. 



Among the many poultry-courts fitted up 

 on a large scale at the mansions of people of 

 fortune, as well as for the convenience of 

 great dealers, those of the Earl of Chester- 

 field, at Bretby Park, in Derbyshire, and of 

 Lord Penrhyn, at Winnington, in Cheshire, 

 rank above all others in size and accommo- 

 dation. The latter, indeed, presents an ele- 

 gant colonnade, extending to nearly 150 feet 

 in length, bounded at each extremity by a 

 neat pavilion, and containing within the in- 

 terior all the appropriate roosting, feeding, 



