or Age ; with Staggs I would not exceed the 

 Number of three, becaule they are fo full of 

 Mettle, that by conftant Treading, if they have 

 too many, Nature becomes weak, and fo con- 

 ftquently will produce weakly Fowl ; two, 

 three, and four Year old Cocks may diipenfe 

 with five or fix, and at at five, fix, feven, and 

 eight Year old, would leflen their Number as 

 they advanced in Years: There are fome Bree- 

 ders even of the celebrated Race, which put ten 

 Hens to a Cock without any Exception to Years 

 or ought elfe, and the Realbn they give, why 

 they do it, is, becaufe one Strain from the Cock 

 is fufficient for the whole Lowter ; which No- 

 tion is quite wrong, and it is fo far evident to 

 the contrary, that tho' a Hen has been with a 

 Cock a Week or ten Days, which, was it poffi- 

 ble to be done, is long enough, upon taking him 

 away, that it is not fufficient to ftrain above eight 

 or nine Egs, which is far Ihort of the whole 

 Lowter ; nay, there is a great deal of Room to 

 objed againft the Truth of this, becaufe there 

 has been innumerable Proofs, that upon taking 

 up a Cock from a Hen and putting down ano- 

 ther, after flinging away three or four Eggs at 

 the moft, the Remaining Part ftiall all be got 

 by the fecond Cock : This I fay, feemingly con- 

 tradifts the other, yet it is poffible they may 

 both be true, becaufe the Seed of the fecond 

 Cock may deftroy that of the firft, and render it 

 of none EfFeft. But when all thefe Doubts are 

 anfwered, what do they avail to the Truth of 

 Breeding ; for fuppofe there be a Neceffity of 

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