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began to grow scarce, these two pens supplied us with twice as 
many as any other pens containing the same number of birds. 
I was therefore very well satisfied with my experiment, and 
every year since that time I have always raised a large number ol 
fall chickens. I now keep them in a large house until the price of 
the old fowls goes up. I then sell the latter, and replace them 
with the young pullets. 
