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dollars and thirty-two cents, besides their droppings, which I consider 

 the most valuable of all domestic manures. I feed them just as I 

 do myself, three times a day, and supply fresh, clean water daily. 

 Some people wonder how I get time to do all this every day. I will 

 tell you the secret : I get up before breakfast ; I leave my bed 

 when the chickens fly down from their roosts. 



Mr. A. S. Fuller. — I have no trouble about eggs or chickens, and I 

 let my poultry go where they please. There is a bin of wheat where 

 they go and help themselves. They get all the buckwheat they 

 want, and in the winter green food, such as chickweed, or, if that is 

 covered, cabbage leaves chopped. 



Mr. Daniel B. Brueu. — I give you my experience for one year in 

 raising poultry. As I was but a novice (when I commenced the 

 science of " henology " some few years since) as to their habits, proper 

 food, and nature, I have been obliged to learn everything in relation 

 to that subject by experience. I commenced the year with fifty 

 hens and two roosters, black Spanish breed, with a cross of about 

 one-eighteenth game and Leghorn. I commence my account Janu- 

 ary 1st : 



4 weeks to January 28th 293 eggs. 



4 weeks to February 25th 678 " 



4 weeks to March 25th 971 " 



4 weeks to April 22d 1,003 " 



4 weeks to May 20th 955 " 



4 weeks to June 17th 8G1 " 



4 weeks to July 14th 720 " 



4 weeks to August 11th 593 " 



4 weeks to September 8th 541 " 



4 weeks to October 6th 470 " 



4 weeks to November 9th 294 " 



4 weeks to Decem])er 1st 248 " 



4 weeks to December 29th 306 " 



2 days, 30th and 31st 20 " 



Total 8,013 eggs. 



From January 1st to December 31st, 067 dozen and nine-twelfths 



eggs. Eggs have averaged in our market over twenty-five cents per 

 dozen. 



667 dozen, j\ at 25 cents $166 94 



My fiimily have used tliii'tj fowls, at 37-| cents 11 25 



My stock now numbers seventy-three. 



Increase of stock, thirteen ; 37-| 4 88 



$183 07 



