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Shape, they will be rather gummy at four, and 

 require Youth to repair thofe drofly Particles, 

 fo that I fhall endeavour to find out a Method 

 to preferve Youth on one Side, at the Expira- 

 tion of four Years, without running from the 

 Certainty of a good Crofs, which muft be ef- 

 fe&ed by breeding out of Father and Daughters, 

 and Mother and Aunts, with a Son and Ne- 

 phew, beginning at five Years old with the 

 Cock, putting the laft Year's Produd to him ; 

 and that Daughter's Pullets may be put to hitn 

 for four Years together ; one of the fineft old 

 Hens muft be continued with him for that Ufe 

 only, ehufing every Year the fineft fhap'd Ones, 

 and beft feather'd : By the fame Method, a Stagg 

 may alfo be put every Year to the old Hens, 

 which is called a better Way of breeding ; but 

 in my Opinion, quite equal : This Method I 

 look upon to be a great deal better than conti- 

 nuing the old Fowl together till feven and 

 eight Years old each ; for if the Crofs was juft 

 before, they will not be let down by adding 

 Relations together : Alfo Brother and Sifter 

 may be put together in the youthful Days of 

 their Parents ; and it may be neceflary to ob- 

 lerve, that Youth is more required in Brother 

 and Sifter, than in either of the other Methods 

 of Breeding, becaufe there is no Change of 

 Blood, which in either of the other is one Third. 

 There are yet two more Ways of keeping to a 

 good Kind, which, 1 think, are fuperior to any 

 yet mentioned ; the firft of which is, By breed- 

 ing from half Brother and Sifter, that is twice 



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