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mend to be hatched early; they cost us too much 

 in care and affection. 



Slight defects in comb or claw are not fatal to 

 the chickens' merits as table fowls; I, therefore, 

 feed such as well as the very best, but do not 

 crowd my intended prize-winners with them. 



I keep an exact (even fastidious) account of all 

 dates and numbers in my Poultry Diary, for cor- 

 rectly filling up schedules, arranging my sale 

 catalogue, and for my own general satisfactioa 



Each day the number of eggs laid is noted 

 down; the houses are all numbered, and the 

 figure of that in which the egg is found, marked 

 on it by the collector, who need not know one 

 sort of fowl from another. 



I alone arrange the eggs in their different 

 baskets, writing on the shell with pencil the date 

 and speciality. 



Chickens, as they are hatched, are entered in 

 the Diary, as also the fowls killed for table and 

 market, at their respective values. 



When my assistant henwife receives orders for 

 settings of eggs, I mark them down in due order, 

 that each purchaser may be supphed according to 



