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consumption. This is a simple but certain way to keep eggs 

 for future household uses — out they cannot thus be availed of 

 for hatching purposes, after immersion in the liquid prescribed, 

 since the preparation permeates the shells, more or less, render- 

 ing them tender, comparatively, after any considerable length 

 of time. 



We deem this closing chapter on the " raising of fowls and 

 eggs for market, in quantity," a very valuable addition to our 

 present treatise. And although, as the writer in the " Poultry- 

 World " observes, Mr. Baker will scarcely meet with competi- 

 tors, in the present century, upon so vast a scale as he conducts 

 chicken-raising, yet his method of managing the business settles 

 the hitherto long mooted problems that poultry oan be raised to 

 profit, artificially — and that one thousand or five thousand 

 fowls can be kept and reared (as he does it) under a single roof. 



This experiment, so successfully carried through by Mr. 

 Baker, has been determined only after a long and earnest trial. 

 The amount of money expended by him during the several 

 years that he hau been quietly and unostentatiouslj'' pursuing 

 his labors in tlie work he undertook, has been very large. He 

 has met with disappointment, oftentimes, and his persistence 

 has been remarkable. But his ample means, his peculiar tastes, 

 and his love of the occupation have served to aid him in the 

 achievement of this triumph. 



He has demonstrate4 very clearly that unlimited quantities 

 of chickens can be artificially hatched, and afterwards success- 

 fully reared to marketable condition, without the use of hen- 

 mothers. The difficulty of raising chicks, after getting them 

 safely out of their shells, is what has troubled all who have 

 hitherto attempted this work upon a large scale — more es- 

 pecially when such effort is undertaken in the cold seasons of 

 our variable climate. 



Whatever may come of the record we have now made re- 

 garding Mr. Baker's success, it affords us great pleasure to add 

 this interesting account in these pages. And we feel very cou- 

 fident that all who read our present treatise on " raising fowls 

 and eggs in quantity for market," will be gratified with this 

 valuable addition thus made to our book ; from a study of 

 which the ambitious poulterer may learn much that down to 

 the present day has been generally unknown and unappreci- 

 ated. 



