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and between the columns, is a very beautiful Mosaic iron gate ; 

 on one side of this gate is an elegant little parlor, most taste- 

 fully papered and furnished ; and at the other end of the colon- 

 nade, a very neat kitchen ; behind is a large, neatly-paved court, 

 with a pond and pump in the centre. The whole fronts towards 

 a little paddock, where the birds are turned in between meals. 

 The strictest attention is paid to cleanliness, and, notwithstand- 

 ing that about six hundred poultry of different kinds were kept 

 in the establishment, neither dung nor litter was ever to be seen 

 lying about for a moment. This building is of brick, except 

 the pillars and cornices, and the lintels and jambs of the doors 

 and windows ; but the bricks are concealed by a covering of 

 fine slate, brought from his lordship's quarries in Wales. 



MR. ENGLAND'S POULTRY-HOUSE. 



In a paper published in the Transactions of the Highland 

 and Agricultural Society of Scotland, for 1833, Mr. England 

 gives a plan of a poultry-house which presents some features, 

 at that time regarded as novelties, but which have since come 

 into general use. This house was divided into separate wards, 

 each ward calculated to accommodate twenty-four hens and one 

 cock, with a yard attached to it of about twelve feet square. 

 The houses were supplied with nests, which had small plat- 

 forms in front, and were reached by commodious ladders. He 

 had also provided a storm-house, for shelter in bad weather, and 

 a dry bath-house, or a place supplied with fine sand, in which 

 fowl delight to roll or bathe, and which they likewise swallow, 

 to facilitate the process of digestion. 



MR. WAKEFIELD'S POULTRY-HOUSE. 



Mr. Wakefield, who kept a very large stock of geese, ducks, 

 turkeys, and poultry, near Liverpool, adopted a very simple, 

 but, as the result showed, most successful plan of operation. 



