end of a warm board under their heels. 



I iously, from early youth I have 

 h an especial interest in the sub- 

 ' if poultry-raising, and so this 



Uichiuership touches a ready sympa- 

 thy in my breast. Even as a school- 

 boy, poultry-raising was a study with 

 me, and I may say witho"ut egotism 

 that as early as the age of seventeen 

 I was acquainted with all the best and 

 speediest methods of raising chick- 

 ens, from raising them off a roost by 

 burning lucifer matches under their 

 noses, down! to lifting them off a fence 

 on a frosty night by insinuating the 

 By the time I was twenty years old, I 



* Being a letter written to a Poultry Society that had conferred a complimentary membership 

 upon. the author. .... ■ 



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