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sale, is CONSTANT HIGH KEEP from the beginning, 

 whence they will not only be always ready for the 

 table with very little extra attention, but their flesh 

 will be superior in juiciness and rich flavour, to those 

 which are fattened from a low and emaciated state. 

 Fed in this mode, the SPRING PULLETS are particu- 

 larly fine, at the same time most nourishing and res- 

 torative food. The pullets which have been hatched 

 in March, if high fed from the teat, will lay plenti- 

 fully through the following autumn, and not being 

 intended for breeding stock, the advantage of their 

 eggs may be taken, and themselves disposed of 

 thoroughly fat for the table in February, about 

 which period their laying will be finished. In Fe- 

 bruary, 1792, we had a fine shew of white and 

 coloured pullets, most wonderfully improved in size, 

 although we had not for years changed our stock, 

 and so excessively fat from the run of the barn-yard, 

 that they opened more like Michaelmas geese than 

 chickens. 



Instead of giving ordinary and TAIL-CORN to my 

 fattening and breeding poultry, I have always found 

 it most advantageous to allow the heaviest and best, 

 putting the confined fowls upon a level with those 

 fed at the barn-door, where they have their share of 

 the weightiest and finest corn. This high feeding 

 shews itself not only in the size and flesh of the 

 fowls, but in the size, weight, and substantial good- 

 ness of their eggs, which in those valuable particu- 

 lars, will prove far superior to the eggs of fowls fed 

 upon ordinary corn or washy potatoes ; two eggs of 

 the former going farther in domestic use, than three 



