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again under such fovoiable circumstances. At tlie pres- 

 ent moment tliere is a gentleman, not only willing, but 

 able, to make the experiment on scientific principles, and 

 whose statistics, if kept according to the plan I have seen, 

 will be so precise as to become most valuable to every 

 poultry breeder. If we lose this opportunity, shall we 

 ever have the like again? 



Shall it be said that Englishmen are so little enterpris- 

 ing that we prefer to purchase in foreign markets rather 

 than ascertain at a trifling individual expense whether we 

 cannot supply our own wants in the shape of eggs, poul- 

 ti-y, and rabbits? — A Sussex Farmer. 



Poultry Keeping from a Commercial Point of 

 View. 



" Nemo," the defender of " C. S. J.," has my best 

 thanks for his kindly lecture as to what is required to 

 establish the success of anything nowadays. I do not 

 find fault with his opinion as regards the profits poultry 

 breeding will yield, and in the absence of any actual 

 statistics of my system on a large scale, I can only reiter- 

 ate what I stated in my reply to " C. S. J." There are, 

 however, a few assertions with which I beg to differ, even 

 with " Nemo." 



I St. Were it not for sanguine minds, few improvements 

 would ever be carried out ; and were even the minimum 

 profits given, there would still be found many persons who 

 would, with just as good reasoning, reduce it below zero. 



2d. The artificial hatching can be entirely dispensed 

 with in my system, as for every one thousand hens, I can 



