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bees, prepared to pay the rent of the whole farm, foraging 

 over hundreds of acres, gathering in produce of another 

 kind, paying nothing for the privilege, and doing no one 

 harm because of this gentle art of appropriation. 



POULTRY. 



Living as I do in a district which sends up nearly lOO 

 tons of dead fattened fowls to the LoYidon Market weekly ! 

 and this large demand necessitating the production of over 

 100,000 store chickens every week, most of them being 

 reared in this same locality, my statements may be taken 

 as representing the truth of the whole matter. I also rear 

 chickens by the thousand on my own place ; fatten them, 

 ahd send up to market several dozens weekly. The aver- 

 age price secured for these young chickens, which accord- 

 ing to the season and the varietj- used, may be from 4 to 

 5 months old, is about 3/6. The number sent in each 

 parcel is written upon the invoice supplied by the salesman, 

 and his own label, also supplied gratis, is attached to the 

 ' ped,' and besides that there is no correspondence what- 

 ever ; no advising, and no acknowledgement of the cheque 

 received in return. 



The cost from the door to the London Market is one 

 penny for each chick; the salesman charges the same, or 

 a little more for his trouble, according to the rate the birds 

 are sold at, while the empties are returned to the door free 

 of any further charge. These are co-operative advantages 

 without co-operation in fact ; for this is the result of the 

 large number of fowls sent up from the one locality. 



And yet with all these advantages I dare not tell any 

 young man he should make his start in life by 



Poultry Keeping Alone. 

 Only too often I have seen this result in lamentable 

 failure, as in the ordinary course must be the case. What 



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