74 CHICKENS. 



" Love of ladies, splintering of lances ; 

 Bright eyes behold your deeds. '' 



But as adolescence ceases with the year, (so the 

 poultry parliament has enacted), they must then 

 be separated from their brother knights, and dis- 

 posed of as may be thought advisable. 



As soon as the chickens are taken from their 

 mothers, and established in their own colonies, 

 their feeding should be the same as that of adult 

 .fowls, the plumage of which they ought to assume 

 at the age of six months. 



