662 TRANSxiCTIONS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 



Mr. T'. C. Peters. — Let Mr. Dickie get the first number of The 

 Hearth and Home. There he will find an excellent article describing 

 Mr. Leland's poultry yards, and all the arts and methods of his suc- 

 cess. 



T>\. Isaac P. Trimble. — Mr. Lyman has been up there and knows 

 all about the matter. "Will he not answer the inquirer ? 



Mr. J. B. Lyman. — It is true that AVarren Leland succeeds in keep- 

 ing great numbers of hens, turkeys and ducks, without getting diseases 

 among the poultry. lie never cheeks their natural liberty in summer, 

 and in winter makes them entirely comfortable. He has a park or 

 range of seventeen acres, which is given up to the poultry. Then, in 

 summer, the brood hens have another large field by themselves, and 

 the turkeys go where they please. 



His poultry keeper is an Englishman, and devotes his w^hole time 

 to the difterent yards. The birds are all fed liberally. They lay 

 and set in boxes arranged for their convenience. When a hen comes 

 off, her box is taken to the yard, the straw thrown out, the box left 

 'in the sun and rain several days, then carefully whitewashed. The 

 roosts and perches are also whitewashed, and the floors of the houses 

 covered with plaster, to absorb ill odors. In the coldest weather 

 fires are kindled in stoves and fire-places. When the cold moderates 

 these fires go down, and the hens have plenty of dry ashes to wallow 

 in. At all times of the year they get all the food they want, both 

 grain and meat. 



He says he can make 1,000 pounds of poultry meat cheaper than 

 1,000 pounds of beef. No one should think of keeping 100 hens on 

 less than an acre ; 1,000 should have at least ten acres. The same 

 roosters never consort with his hens two successive 'summers. 



Dr. J. V. C. Smith. — In tropicaf regions they raise poultry very 

 extensively. On the Nile, and near Cairo, I have seen large numbers 

 of chickens ; they go very extensively into the hatching business. 

 The feed is a sort of grain like broom corn. The poultry is very 

 cheap. But strange to say they cannot raise poultry in Cuba. I 

 know men who export poultry to that island in large numbers. Why 

 they cannot raise poultry there is a problem. 



Mr. T. C. Peters. — is not the atmosphere drier in Nubia than in 

 Havana ? 



Dr. J. Y. C. Smith. — It is the same, I think. 



Mr. T. C. Peters. — I see that poultry is raised in Florida with 

 great facility. 



