30 WINTER BREEDING. 



edly made the experiment with some scores, without 

 being able to preserve an individual through the 

 winter, and nearly the same has resulted with res- 

 pect to pigs, on a damp clayey or marshy soil. This* 

 I request should be understood with some grains 

 of allowance in respect to the soils on which my 

 stock of both kinds was reared, in three counties. 

 Thry were clayey, wet, and benumbing, and my 

 neighbours were in a similar predicament with my- 

 self. It in a mere statement of facts. I have referred 

 in the sequel, to those dry soil-, better adapted to 

 breeding of poultry, as they are also to breed- 

 ing and keeping of sheep. 1 gave merely my own 

 actual experience, without doubting, that many 

 breeders mure fur innately situated, have succeeded 

 wiih \\inter stock, though in the bcsl situations, 

 winter may bring with it considerable risk. A re- 

 cord, however, of the experimented fact may remain, 

 as a c.iuiin to breeders upon unfavourable soils. 

 1 lie following is a remarkable instance of attention, 

 and success in winter breeding. 



The late Mrs. Adams, who lived at Ditchford 

 Farm, near Shipston on Stour, in Worcestershire, 

 for many years devoted her time and attention to 

 the breeding and rearing of winler chickens and 

 spring ducklings, with which she constantly attended 

 Campdcn ami Shipston markets, where her poultry 

 was sought by the neighbouring gentry with avidity, 

 and generally fetched good prices : the excellence 

 of this good woman's poultry was proverbial : at a 

 breeder and feeder, she stood pre-eminent ; her 

 chickens were always ready for the table by new 



