142 FOWLS AS AN ARTICLE OF PROFIT. 



ly anything which you may not give them 

 except salt. I have read an account of one 

 who killed fifty fowls by giving them meal 

 which had been salted for a horse, and of 

 another who destroyed a flock of thirty 

 young turkeys by mixing a spoonful of salt 

 in their food. When fowls are not permit- 

 ted to range about in summer at all, it is 

 well to supply them daily with fresh grass 

 cut very short, and such weeds as are taken 

 from the garden. 



To those who keep but a few fowls, which 

 are left to shift for themselves, and who are 

 satisfied with their produce, whether in eggs 

 or chickens, provided they have no trouble 

 about them, the following remarks will have 

 but little interest. We propose to offer a 

 few remarks on the keeping of fowls as an 

 article of profit, and the value of their prod- 

 ucts. That this in the aggregate must be 

 very considerable, no one can entertain the 

 least doubt, and the amount of capital in- 

 vested in the United States in this apparent- 

 ly inconsiderable branch of domestic indus- 

 try is very great. This will be evident from 



