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Statement of Robert Mansfield. 



I send you the following statement of the income from five 

 fowls the present season. There was a daily memorandum 

 kept of eggs laid, of the time of three of the hens' setting, the 

 number of chickens raised, &c. My fowls were not entered 

 for premium ; but this statement is submitted for publication, 



GALLTJS BANKIVA, 



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if worthy. I believe the equal to the production of these fowls 

 has never been published. They have averaged more than 

 three eggs in four days to each hen when not setting or going 

 with the chickens. Here is the result : — 



March 28, 1854. 

 To one rooster, half game, half native, . 

 To four hens, half Spanish, half Poland, 

 To four dozen eggs to set, . 

 To five bushels corn, .... 



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$0 50 



2 00 



72 



5 00 



*8 99 



