128 FA.RMING FOR LADIES. [cha¥. v. 



your own table, whether you be a rich or a 

 poor man, may be produced and reared at 

 the expense of fotirpence halfpenny !^^ 



Although we do not wholly agree in many 

 of his observations on management, yet, as 

 they may, by some people, be thought im- 

 portant, we here also insert them : — 



" Care should be taken that young chickens 

 may not swallow snails or slugs, as this food 

 has a tendency to make them sickly. While 

 you rear your chickens for the market, do 

 not confine them in coops if you can possibly 

 manage them otherwise. Any animal whose 

 flesh we are to use for food should be in 

 perfect health when it is killed, if we wish 

 that food to be, in its kind, assuredly whole- 

 some ; but all animals fattened for killing, in 

 a state of confinement and rest, are actually 

 at least in incipient disease at the time when 

 they are killed as sufficiently fat ; and, if 

 such, the flesh can never possess the fine 

 flavour of the carcass of an animal killed in 

 perfect health, nor prove such salutary food. 

 If circumstances shall, however, oblige you to 

 fatten your chickens in coops, be sure to put 

 a little brickdust into the water you set before 



