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simply ridiculous, and I doubt whether, if they could be 

 found, they would long remain a united family. 



4th. If "Nemo" will take the trouble to read the arti- 

 cle on natural hatching, No. 198, he will find that I advo- 

 cate natural hatching and artificial rearing. Has it ever 

 occurred to him, in estimating the annual profit of a hen, 

 to charge to her credit the hatching of one or two broods ? 

 which surely is more valuable than the number of eggs 

 she could lay in twenty-one days. 



