240 SUMMER MANAGEMENT. 



balance-sheet, and to encourage others to follow 

 their good example. 



If poultry is kept for profit alone, or where 

 the superfluous stock is only sold to reduce ex- 

 penses, I advise the breeder to confine his fancy 

 to the more valuable varieties, as commanding a 

 sure market, either for table use or exhibition. 

 The expenses of rearing and feeding valuable 

 fowls will be all but the same as that of com- 

 paratively worthless ones. The same attendance 

 will be required, and the only additional outlay 

 will be on the extra comfort and warmth neces- 

 sary for early-hatched chickens. This, if pro- 

 perly managed, will be very trifling. It is a great 

 mistake to build chicken palaces, or to fancy 

 that such can ever be constructed on such 

 elastic principles as to afford space for the rear- 

 ing of poultry and supply of eggs, even for a 

 moderate establishmeiit, throughout the year. 

 On however large a scale the attempt is made, 

 chickens confined entirely to such would not 

 thrive, and the result would only bring dis- 

 appointment. Nowhere can poultry be reared 

 better or at less outlay than at a farm-steading 



