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Poultry Kaising. 

 Mr. C. N'ojes, of Lebanon, Conn., inclosed an account of what lie 

 had received from an average of thirty hens, each year, for the past 

 five years. This amount, he said, is what I have sold, not taking into 

 the calculation the eggs and poultry used in the family, consisting of 

 seven persons. My practice is to kill the hens in the fall after thej 

 are one year old, and raise enough chickens to keep my number good. 

 I tliink in this way we get more eggs, and the young fowls do less 

 miscliief than old ones. The fowls run at large except about two 

 months in the summer, and then they are let out about two hours a 

 day toward night. But here are the statistics : Amount received 

 from thirty hens from April 1, 18G4, to April 1, 1865, 269 dozen eggs, 

 $73.10 ; 250 pounds poultry, $53.05— $126.15 ; average per hen, 84.20. 

 April 1, 1865, to April 1, 1866, 252 dozen eggs, $79.50 ; 59^ pounds 

 poultry, $18.11— $93.61 ; average per hen, $3.12. April 1, 1866, to 

 April 1, 1867 (35 hens), 303 dozen eggs, $97.03; 131^ pounds poul- 

 try, $31.05— $128.08; average per hen, $3.66. 



ISTOTES OF SOUTHERIJ TkAVEL. 



An English gentleman, Mr. Bower Wood, of Long Island City, has 

 just returned from a journey in the South, and reports as follows : — 

 We found throughout l^orth Carolina and Virginia, every disposition 

 to welcome immigration, to put aside politics, and an earnest wish to 

 embrace every northern suggestion and improvement. Tiie negroes 

 are disappointed because they do not each get a forty-acre farm and a 

 mule ; but as a rule they are neither troublesome nor dangerous. In 

 truth, they require the incentive of the master's eye, or else a faith- 

 fully-fulfilled contract by the piece or acre, just as white laborers do. 

 Their wages vary from seven to ten dollars per month, and rations, 

 which do not cost altogether more than ten dollars per month more. 

 The females make excellent in-door servants, and can be hired at nearly 

 lialf the above. We found all portions of the States above-named 

 healthy, and with the advantage over the western sections of nearness to 

 market, plenty of splendid timber, and good water. The heat we felt 

 no more than in ]Srew York, and farmers assured us that they could do 

 that hardest of all work, the hoeing of cotton, all day in the hottest 

 sun. The quality of the land is various, but equal to any section 

 north that we know of, and wherever proper cultivation, rotation of 

 crops, and manures are applied, the results are in excess of northern 

 products on the same area. Japan clover, white and red clover, and 



