APPENDIX. 



COMPARATIVE MERITS OF DIFFERENT BREEDS 

 OF FOWLS. 



HAVING hastily examined the proof sheets of " The 

 American Poultry Yard," written by Mr. D. J. Browne, 

 which you put into my hands, with a request that I 

 should add something from my own experience, I am 

 reminded of an anecdote that took place in this city 

 some years ago. A gentleman being called upon to 

 make the closing speech, at a public meeting, rose and 

 said, he was an unfortunate man ; that, since he came 

 into the house, he had been robbed of everything he had 

 intended to say on the subject under discussion, by the 

 speakers who had gone before him ; and that nothing 

 was left for him to say which had not already been said. 

 The application is obvious in the case before me. 



The breeding of fowls, with many, is more a matter of 

 fancy than of the intrinsic value of the different kinds ; 

 and the safest way of giving advice on this subject is to 

 say, let each individual select that variety which he 

 likes best, breed and compare the merits or demerits of 

 each until his judgment is well founded upon actual ex- 

 perience, holding rigidly to the principle of not crossing 

 different breeds for permanent use, but keeping them, if 



