under, there muft either be a Supply of frefh 

 Walks every Year, or elfe a lefler Number bred 

 one Year, to make Room for a greater the next ; 

 therefore, this is not the perfed Way, tho' it 

 differs only in this, inftead, of putting them out 

 at Michaelmas, I would continue them toge- 

 ther in a Farm- Yard all Winter, and until the 

 old Cocks were fought off, to the End, that 

 they might fucceed them : But I muft obferve, 

 that there ought not to be a Female of any 

 Age with them, leaft it occafion a Civil War 

 amongft them j nor muft their Comb and Gills 

 be cut during the Time of their Cohabitation 

 together, but rather when they are about three 

 Months old, or elfe, not till- they go put to 

 Walks : But I think the former much the belt 

 Way, becaufe the moft of them being nigh 

 a Year old, before they can take Mafterr 

 Walks by this Method, their Combs will be 

 apt to be too full grown, and therefore will 

 loofe too great a Quantity of Blood. 



I fhall conclude the whole by fhewing a Ne- 

 ceffity for keeping proper and regular Books, 

 with the Manner of doing it : A great many 

 Breeders content themfelves with keeping a 

 fmall and imperfeft Account of the Genealogy 

 of their Fowl, and think Books are only ufeful 

 for Memorandums of what Fowl are bred, and 

 where they are walked ; but I muft beg Leave 

 to give them to underftand, that it is very ma- 

 terial, to infert in a particular Manner, what 

 fuch and fuch Cocks and Hens are defcended 

 from, which are put together every Year, or 



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