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them into shape for breeding, perhaps, but also to get 

 them into a natural state of health. A good diet for a 

 month will be cooked bran and turnips mashed in the 

 morning and oats and barley only for dry food. Plenty 

 of bone, shell, gravel, and such other substances should 

 be supplied. Chopped hay, cut short, may be given 

 plentifully ; cooked meat and boiled fish occasionally. 

 Those that have colds should be treated carefully for 

 them. 



With good fowls, mated, reared, selected, matched, 

 prepared, shipped, returned and restored in the manner 

 above related, you ought to have won enough prizes and 

 made a good enough record to satisfy any reasonable 

 man, and to lay a solid foundation for patronage for the 

 ensuing year. You have tasted trouble, you are now to 

 enjoy for a time the sweets of success, and to make 

 preparations for another and still more successful cam- 

 paign. 



POULTRY ON A LARGE SCALK. 



The many will raise poultry in small numbers ; but 

 a few will be found who desire to engage in the busi- 

 ness on an extensive scale. To a lover of fowls the 

 business is an attractive one, and properly managed it is 

 a profitable one. Within the remaining limits of this 

 treatise it will only be possible to outline some of the 

 more general principles that are involved in the undertak- 

 ing; to state briefly the plans which some have proposed 

 and tried, and to refer the reader to other sources of 

 information where the subject is treated in extenso. 



One of the first difficulties that is to be met is that 



