163 MARCH* 



fourth for food. If the scale is large, there should 

 be a fifth, for plucking and keeping feathers. If 

 a woman is kept purposely to attend them, she 

 should have her cottage contiguous, that the smoke 

 of her chimney may play into the roosting and 

 setting rooms ; poultry never thriving so well as in 

 warmth and smoke; an observation as old as Co- 

 lumella, and strongly confirmed by the quantity 

 bred in the smoky cabbins of Ireland. For setting 

 both turkies and hens, nests should be made in 

 lockers, that have lids with hinges, to confine them, 

 if necessary, or two or three will, in setting, crowd 

 into the same nest. All must have access to a 

 gravelled yard, and to grass for range, and the 

 building should be near the farm-yard, and have 

 water near and clear. Great attention should be 

 paid to cleanliness and white- washing, not for ap- 

 pearance, but to destroy vermin. Boiled potatoes 

 are the cheapest food ; and of corn, buck- wheat. 

 Turkies, while young, demand incessant attention, 

 and must be fed with alum -curd and chopped 

 onions, for which purpose, store of those roots 

 should be kept where they will shoot out and pro- 

 duce much food. If there be not great success in 

 broods, and a certain high price, they will not an- 

 ^ for the expences are heavy. 



WATERED MEADOWS. 



At the beginning of this month the crop of grass 

 on the old floated meadows will generally be suffi- 

 cient, Mr. Wright remarks, to afford an abundant 



pasturage 



