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Breeding 



Choice of a cock . 



Life of a hen 



Number of hens to a cock 



Old women's sayings 



Sorts of common fowls : 



the game-cock, and cock-fighting 



the Dorking . 



capons and poulardes 



the Malays, Polish, and Spanis 



the shack-back 



the crested 



hybrids 



bantams 



barn-door fowls and dung-hill cocks 

 Fecundity of the hen 

 First and second broods 

 Servants 

 Laying of eggs 

 Process of hatching 

 Nests . 

 Roosting 

 Sitting 



Impregnation of the egg 

 Number of eggs to be placed un 

 Good and bad sitters 

 Production of the chicks 

 Management of chickens 

 Cribs . 



Crop and gizzard 

 Separation of the hen and chicken 

 Cost and value of chickens and grown fowls 

 Feeding of grown fowls . 



of stores .... 



Earth-woi-ms and maggots 

 Parisian Abattoir and Ferminieres 

 Quantity of food consumed by fowls . 



ler a hen 



