POULTRY. 



This is a very busy month with the poultry maid. 

 The young broods, especially of turkies, demand 

 such careful and almost constant attention, that 

 if they are numerous, the servant to whom they 

 are entrusted should have little else to do. This 

 circumstance renders it necessary either to breed a 

 large number, that the expence may answer, or 

 else to have no other than the common barn-door 

 system. 



BUILDING. 



This is an article of rural economy which gene- 

 rally belongs to landlords or their stewards ; but 

 as a young farmer may possess his farm by pur- 

 chase or inheritance, it is highly necessary that he 

 should be cautioned in certain points, wherein it is 

 probable he will have had no experience ; nnd these 

 may be rioted without any encroachment into the 

 bounds of works properly architectural. If he en- 

 tered to his farm at the more common season of 

 Michaelmas, he could not begin any buildings that 

 require the work of masonry fill April, but he 

 should not longer delay it, for there is no point in 

 building more necessary to be attended to, than 

 that of finishing as early in summer as possible, 

 that all works in mortar may have much time to 

 dry before winter. If the house the farmer lives in 

 be a very bad one, or which wants alterations and 

 great repairs, it should be exceedingly well con- 

 sidered before they be undertaken, for thousands 



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