RAISING FOWLS AND EGGS 



IN QUANTITY, FOR MARKET. 

 HOW TO DO IT. 



Some wiseacre has affirmed that " a bird in the hand is 

 worth two in the bush." He is correct in this decision. We 

 venture to paraphrase this ancient adage, and assume that a 

 healthy live chicken in the palm is worth more than two in 

 the shell ! 



We commence this treatise with some brief ideas upon the 

 best methods of hatching chickens, such as may prove valua- 

 ble to the farmer or poulterer — • always contending, as we do, 

 and believing that incubation in the natural way is the preferable 

 mode. That this plan is the very best for our purposes which 

 can be adopted, (at least for the present in this country), we 

 were years ago satisfied. 



The setting hen is surer, she hatches a greater percentage 

 of chicks, and will in this climate, give us better, healthier, 

 larger, and stronger young birds than can be produced through 

 any other known process; not excepting. the Egyptian, the Chi- 



