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year. The amount of sales for the whole City of Boston, for the 

 same year, was over one million of dollars. The amount of sales of 

 eggs, in and around the Quincy market, for 1848, was one million, 

 one hundred and twenty-nine thousand, seven hundred and thirty-five 

 dezen, which, at eighteen cents per dozen, makes the amount paid 

 for eggs to be, tvo hundred and three thousand, three hundred and 

 fifty-two dollars and thirty cents ; while the amount of sales of eggs 

 for the whole city of Boston, for the same year, was a fraction short 

 of one million of dollars ; the daily consumption of eggs at one of 

 its hotels being seventy-five dozen daily, and on Saturday, one hun- 

 dred and fifty dozen. One dealer in the egg trade, at Philadelphia, 

 sends to the New York market daily, nearly one hundred barrels of 

 eggs ; while the value of eggs shipped from Dublin to Liverpool and 

 London, was more than five millions of dollars for the year 1848." 



The foregoing statement will, we think, convince the farmer that 

 the rearing of poultry is a subject worthy of more attention than has 

 heretofore been bestowed upon it. Writers describe many varieties 

 of the domestic fowl, but we shall confine our remarks to some of the 

 well known breeds, and those which we think will be the most profit, 

 able for the farmer to keep. 



I. Tlie Malay Fowl. 

 In a valuable treatise on Domestic Fowls, by H. D, Richardson, 

 published in Dublin, in 1849, the author says — *'The Malay fowl 

 has, as its name implies, been brought, originally, from the peninsula 

 of that name, at the southern point of the continent of India. He 

 stands very high on the legs, is long necked, serpent-headed, and is 

 m color usually a dark brown, streaked with yellow, sometimes, how- 

 ever, white ; his form and appearance are grand and striking in the 

 extreme. This fowl is also frequently called the Chittagong. The 

 Malay fowl that were originally imported, were by no means such 

 birds as I could recommend to the notice of the breeder, their size 

 possessing too much offal, as neck, legs, and thighs, and the flesh, 

 moreover, being dark colored and oily. Another variety, that rep- 

 resented by the cut, that has been since introduced, which is well 

 worthy of our attention. As a cross, this Malay has indeed proved 

 a most valuable addition to our poultry yard, the cross-breed possess- 

 ing all the hardiness of our native domestic fowl, with the gigantic 

 sizQ of the foreij;n stock." 



