CHAP. VIII.] FARMING FOR LADIES. 179 



weight of those of the first year being 521bs., 

 and of the second 571bs. 



It will be thus seen that the pullets layed 

 more eggs within the year than when they 

 had become hens ; but it appears that those 

 of the first year's production weighed, upon 

 an average, only ten to the pound, whereas 

 those of the second year weighed eight to 

 the pound, and yielded 51bs. more than the 

 former. The fowls were fed entirely on corn ; 

 having each a bushel of barley with about 

 61bs. of boiled rice, and a little barley meal ; 

 but they did not, in either case, bring up a 

 brood, or ever evince any desire to sit : while 

 another pullet, after laying 56 eggs within 

 12 weeks, commenced hatching. 



This produce may appear large ; but it 

 seems that, with a different breed, 212 eggs 

 have been obtained, within three months, from 

 three hens. Mr. England, of Aberdeen, in- 

 deed mentions in one of the prize essays of 

 the Highland Society, as a fact within his 

 own knowledge — " that of late there has been 

 brought from Russia a very productive kind 

 of fowls which do not sit : the produce of 

 four hens of which breed and a common cock 



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