A SOUTH AMERICAN POULTRY FARM. 



Just as we were about closing the last form of this work for the press we 

 received from C. F. PEARCE, Esq., Freetown, Mass., the following article 

 giving an account of " A South American Poultry Farm," which we deem ot 

 sufficient importance to give in this connection, as containing valuable in- 

 formation upon a subject which will interest all breeders of poultry : 



PROFITABLE POULTKY HEARING ON A LARGE SCALE. 



Although we have column after column of poultry matters offered for our 

 perusal, through the agricultural press, I have as yet to see the first state- 

 ment giving the facts and figures of profitable poultry raising on a large scale. 

 Perhaps there might be some who have achieved success in this line, but we 

 are led to believe that misfortunes are more plentiful than the fortunes ac- 

 quired from the manipulations of this particular stock. I have tried my hand 

 at the business, although on a limited scale, and can show figures giving me 

 a profit of three hundred per cent, on the capital invested. There is no known 

 reason why it cannot be managed in an extensive way, and with just as good 

 results, provided it is entered into knowingly and understandingly. 



DESCRIPTION OF A FARM WHERE POULTRY ARE KEPT BY THE THOUSAND. 



I propose to describe a poultry farm, where fowls are kept by the thou- 

 sand, and whose proprietor counts his gains therefrom proportionately. It 

 is situated in the southern extremity of Chili, South America, where the 

 rainy season, of six months duration, is as detrimental to the well being of all 

 fowl kind as the rigors of our own winters, and where great care and skill is 

 very essential to satisfactory results. 



OPERATIONS COMMENCED WITH TWO HUNDRED HENS AND EIGHT COCKS. 



Senor Don SAN FUENTES commenced his operations in poultry with a 

 stock of two hundred hens and eight cocks, to which he has added thereto, 

 by natural increase from year to year, until now he has somewhere in the 

 vicinity of six thousand. Their range is unlimited, as his farm covers three 

 thousand cuadras, equal to seven thousand five hundred acres. To every- 

 fifty hens and two cocks is given a house of their own, of which there are six 



