IN QUANTITY, POK MAEKET. 



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have a proverb among them advising that " you secure your 

 bear, before you offer to sell his skin." 



In this view, we add that the first thing to perform in the 

 raising of chickens, in any quantities, is to successfully hatch 



CHICKEN-COOP, ^V^TH SLIDISG-TOP IN ROOF. 



them. The Bermeans do this on an enormous scale. How 

 they do it, is a matter that must be studied attentively, and 

 experimented upon largely, before the American breeder will 

 be able do it as they succeed with it. But — given the chickens 



COOP WITH LATH COVERED RUN FOB HEN AND CHICKS. 



in hand — successfully hatched, the mode adopted in Berme 

 to raise them is by no means complicated, since they do this 

 by the millions, there. 



But they have a vast advantage over us, in the temperature 

 of their warm climate, to begin with. In Europe or America, 



