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be audited by independent accountants, and the statistics 

 of which would be reliable, and, consequently, valuable 

 to the country at large. 



In a former number it was stated that plans were afoot 

 which would, in all probability, result in calling public 

 attention to the subject, and in giving the question a fair 

 trial on a large scale. Since then the preliminary pros- 

 pectus and the plans have been issued. 



Mr. Geyelin has evidently the utmost confidence in the 

 success of the undertaking, as he has taken on himself the 

 trouble and expense of bringing this subject fairly before 

 the public ; and he gives the free use of his inventions to 

 the Company, not for a cash consideration, but for shares 

 the value of which must entirely depend on the profitable 

 result of his system of poultry keeping. 



A Company of this description requires only half a 

 dozen gentlemen earnest in their efforts to carry out the 

 proposed system. On our part we shall watch the result 

 of this long-vexed question, Can poultry be bred profit- 

 ably in England? with great interest, for if successful, 

 poultry will be sold, as it ought to be, by weight, like 

 other articles of food. 



HOME SUPPLY OF EGGS AND POULTRY. 



Is there any valid reason why England should not sup- 

 ply her own wants in the shape of eggs, poultry, and 

 rabbits ? I dare say the money we pay foreign countries 

 for these necessaries, does not fall far, if at all, short of 

 five hundred thousand pounds annually. Can they not 

 be produced as cheaply, abundantly, and profitably at 



