48 GENERAL TREATMENT. 



prefer making their own arrangements regarding 

 a dietary table. 



Never feed in haste, but watch the peculiari- 

 ties of taste in your flock, and minister to them. 

 One fowl may starve, while the others revel in 

 luxury. As with children, their likes and dis- 

 likes must be studied, and no one kind of food 

 forced upon them, to their disgust, and conse- 

 quent loss of condition and beauty. 



Where young stock, for early market, or 

 summer exhibition, is desired, the breeding 

 yards should be made up not later than Novem- 

 ber. 



If fowls are properly fed, and attended to, eggs 

 for setting will be plentiful in December. 



Well-formed, healthy, spirited birds should 

 alone be selected to breed from, and a certain 

 vivacity of temperament, and proud mien, are 

 essential characteristics of the Lord of the 

 Harem. His sultanas, of whatever variety, 

 should be good types of their respective classes. 

 Polygamy is allowable, but only to the extent of 

 six wives, and this number may, with advantage, 

 be reduced to four. The male bird, if of the 



