24 FARMING FOR LADIES. [chap. i. 



of the turkey-house, or in little rude pens in 

 one of the remote corners of the yard, which 

 allowed room for little enclosures, by move- 

 able hurdles, whenever any variety of broods 

 required this accommodation ; and the houses 

 being open by day, the turkeys and fowls 

 could take shelter from rain, or the rays of a 

 hot sun, as they pleased." 



Although we do not admit that boarded 

 nests are to be preferred for hatching, we yet 

 agree in what the reverend gentleman further 

 says — " that a country carpenter, and a clever 

 contriving woman, can make out every conve- 

 nience she wants, with very little expense :" 

 as well as that, " something of the above plan 

 will answer for any family where expense and 

 show are not desired." We are, indeed, ac- 

 quainted with a family of that description who 

 keep a considerable number of fowls and 

 ducks, with a few turkeys sufficient for the 

 supply of a tolerably good table, all of which 

 are comfortably lodged in a spare stall of the 

 stable, from which it is merely divided by 

 laths, with a small door ; the nests being 

 placed in and under the manger, and the 

 perches fixed lengthwise from the side walls. 



