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meant by good ones always looking pale, and wast- 

 ing away ? One would suppose that " wasting away," 

 must be indicative of loose, flabby, and bad flesh, in- 

 stead of good. 



WOKINGHAM, in Berks, is particularly famous 

 for fatted fowls, by which many persons in that town 

 and vicinity gain a livelihood. The fowls are sold 

 to the London dealers, and the sum of 150 has 

 been returned in one market day by this traffic. 

 Twenty dozen of these fowls were purchased for one 

 gala at Windsor, after the rate of half a guinea the 

 couple. At some seasons, fifteen shillings have been 

 paid for a couple, Fowls constitute the principal 

 commerce of the town. Romford, in Essex, is also 

 a great market for poultry, but generally of the store 

 or barn-door kind, and not artificially fed. FOWL, 

 as well as GOOSE FEEDING, is carried on to a far 

 greater extent in the vicinity of London, than in any 

 other part, namely, at Bow and Stratford, where the 

 fowl-feeding system is said to be equally regular and 

 the food equally good as with the goose. It is said, 

 also, that the dispatch in feeding is superior to any 

 thing known elsewhere. 



The following Noblemen and Gentlemen have 

 been named to me as our chief amateur breeders of 

 Poultry. His Grace the Duke of Leeds, Hornby 

 Castle, Yorkshire His Grace the Duke of Bedford, 

 Woburn Abbey, Beds The Most Noble the Mar- 

 quis of Hastings, Donnington Park, Leicestershire 

 The Most Noble the Marquis of Donegal, Belfast, 

 Ireland The Right Honourable the Earl of Claren- 

 don, the Grove, Watford, Herts The Right Hon- 



