50 ARTIFICIAL HATCHING USELESS. 



out for cleaning, and a long narrow trough along 

 the front, resting on two very low stools, for holding 

 their food. PERCHES are to be fixed in the basket, 

 for the more advanced to roost on. A flannel cur- 

 tain is to be placed in front, and at both ends of the 

 mothers, for the chickens to run under, from which 

 they soon learn to push outwards and inwards. 

 These mothers, with the wicker basket over them, 

 are to be placed against a hot wall, at the back of 

 the kitchen fire, or in any other warm situation, 

 where the heat shall not exceed 80 degrees of Fah- 

 renheit. 



" When the chickens are a week old, they are to 

 be carried with the mother to a grass plat for feed- 

 ing, and kept warm by a tin tube filled with hot wa- 

 ter, which will continue sufficiently warm for about 

 three hours, when the hot water is to be renewed. 

 Towards the evening the mothers are to be again 

 placed against the hot wall. Their food, as before 

 observed, is to consist of coarse barley-meal, steamed 

 till quite soft ; steamed potatoes minced quite small, 

 and occasionally pellets of coarse wheaten flour : 

 these articles may be given to them alternately." 

 This description is certainly superior to mine, in va- 

 riety of particulars and precision, if not in real use. 



It will readily appear why, although we were per- 

 fectly satisfied with our success in hatching a consi- 

 derable number of eggs artificially, we did not yet 

 wish to continue the practice. The fact is, there is 

 no adequate motive in this country, where a quantity 

 of poultry, fully equal, and even superior to the de- 

 mand, may be raised by the natural means : were it 



