ERROR the Second 



Of the Sufficiency of good HENS. 



TH E antient Breeders in this Kind of Di- 

 verfion were of Opinion, that a true 

 Game Hen would breed good Fowl even from a 

 Dunghill Cock, whereas a Cock without a Hen 

 equivalent availeth nothing; nay, to this Day 

 this idle Notion is fo predominant, that a great 

 many which I have conversed with, look upon 

 a Hen to be much the iafeft Side, which is 

 more than I ever could bring to Proof through- 

 out the Practice that T have had ; nor do I be- 

 lieve the oldeft and moft experienced Breeder 

 upon Earth can juftify it, and I am very well 

 affured, there cannot be any other Reafon given 

 for it than this, Hens are not io liable to receive 

 a Taint as Cocks are, becaule they are, generally 

 ipeaking, continued at one Place unmolefted, 

 whereas Cocks are harrais'd about and removed 

 frequently from their Places of Breeding, which 

 bring old Age upon them too foon , and what is 

 it that -has grounded this Notion in People, but 

 meeting withDifappointments of their Expecta- 

 tions in Cocks breeding good Fowl, occaflon'd 

 chiefly by their own Negleft and bad Manage- 

 ment: Suppofe a Cock to have fought, or only to 

 have pone through a regular Courfe of Feeding, 

 itisimpoffiblehefhould produce as good Fowl as 

 the Sifters to him, which have never been dif- 



turbed 



