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in England, where persons sit before an open fireplace, 

 and right in the current of the cold air. Consumption, 

 and colds of all description, could be considerably averted 

 by a different mode of warming our houses ; but, though 

 the hot-water system is not applicable to our private 

 dwellings, it is eminently so for a poultry-house. The 

 heat from the pipes is equally radiated from all parts of 

 the building, and the pipes being immediately under the 

 roosting-perches, it will not require the maintenance of 

 so high a temperature as when the pipes are near the 

 floor, where not so much warmth is required, as it is 

 well known that whilst the body is in motion the natural 

 heat is sufficient to keep us warm, but that as soon as 

 the body is at rest or asleep, the circulation of the blood 

 becomes less active ; consequently it cools sooner, as is 

 evidenced by the fact that the clothes that keep us warm 

 in action are not sufficient to protect us from cold during 

 sleep. There is another consideration why I prefer the 

 pipes under the roosting-perches : it is because, being 

 placed at mid-height of the roosting-room, they are 

 between the heavy and light gases which are necessarily 

 generated in all places where animal life is congregated. 



OUR SYSTEM OF SELLING POULTRY. 



This subject is of such vast national importance that it 

 deserves the most serious consideration of all who take 

 an interest in our national welfare ; it is not only on 

 account of the immense sums we annually pay to for- 

 eigners, but also on account of the enormous destruc- 

 tion of poultry, which, under a different system of sale, 



