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behind the few and plain remarks which I shall make upon the 

 subject, or at least to awaken great districts of country, to the 

 facts that their best lands, those capable of yielding the most 

 profit, if not those capable of yielding any or much profit; lands 

 able to support more people than those at present under culture, 

 lie wholly useless — except it be to kill people who are employed in 

 killing land I and thus shelter the survivors, in some measure, 

 against the evils of penury. 



The senator might have added to his list of the benefits of 

 draining, one fact of a most consoliug kind for the cost and labor 

 of the work, and that is, the delightful reflection that when the 

 good work is accomplished, it is done, and the blessing is fixed 

 for ages. 



[From the London Quarterly Review, April, 1851.] 



We are pleased to see in this distinguished work'the subject of 

 poultry, the first article, extending to eighteen pages of double 

 columns. The American Institute was the first institution offer- 

 ing premiums for improved poultry, as it was likewise for the 

 best spading. The Quarterly heads the article, ^^ Poultry Lite- 

 ratureP 



" Every body knows that there is a fashionable world, a literary 

 world, a sporting world, and a scientific world; but every body 

 does not know that there is a poultry world, with its jealousies,, 

 excitements, preeminences, and interests, just like any other 

 world, which revolves cycle on epi-cycle, orb on orb, in the midst 

 of the great universal w^orld itself. 



Not a few renowned naturalists have disdained in toto the scru- 

 tiny of domesticated animals. 



We Cockney purchasers of poultry at Leadenhall market are 

 made easy prey. 



Poultry and plagiarism seem to be bound together by some 

 mysterious relationship or mesmeric aflinity. Nor is this alliance 

 at all a recent one. The Romans were as bad as the French and 

 English. For instance, Varro, lib. III., chap. XX., tells us how 



