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separated. The cockerels, to grow fast, should at 

 least have soft food twice, and grain once a-day. 

 The pullets should have a more sparing diet, as, 

 if forced into laying at five or six months old, 

 their growth is stopped ; their eggs are small, 

 and they lay only a few at a time. If allowed 

 time to develope their full form, they not only 

 make much larger birds, but frequently lay thirty 

 or forty eggs before showing any disposition to 

 sit. This frequent desire to sit is a great an- 

 noyance to some parties, and the cause of their 

 services often being dispensed with altogether. 

 It is, however, easily cured, not by the cruel 

 method of ducking the hen in water, but by 

 placing her in a pen where there is no nest, and 

 feeding her weU. The fever will generally leave 

 her in about five days, and she will soon recom- 

 mence laying. 



" The points aimed at by amateurs who desire 

 success at the numerous exhibitions of poultry 

 throughout the country, are as follows, viz., per- 

 fectly straight fine combs, the serrations well-de- 

 fined; the body well let down between the legs, 

 the shanks of which should be of a yellow colour, 



