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POULTRY-KEEPING. 



Any person who takes up poultty-keeping should have tome 

 end in view; should either keep fovls for showing and prize- 

 taking, or for laying and fattening. Fowls for domestiouse and 

 fowls for exhibition are two totally different things, and call for 

 entirely different methods of treatment. 



In this small book I wish to adhere as much as possible to the 

 bosiness of poultry-keeping on a small scale within the means 

 ef all people living in the country, and having a little ground of 

 their own. 



If there is a farm-yard to fall back on, and the birds are not 

 kept by themselves, butareaUowed to- run with the other in- 

 mates of that yard, having a hen-house in which to roost, lay, 

 3iid sit, then your cares are reduced to a minimum. As all who 

 might and should keep poultry, have, however, no farm, but only 

 a garden and a plot of ^ound, I will not say any more about 

 the old farmyard system, but suppose that the- fowls have to be 

 kept on a small scale without the foregoing advantages. Huch 

 depends on the purpose for which fowls are kept, if for show 

 and prize-taking, or merely for domestic uses, for table and for 

 eggs. 



- If for show, then the different breeds must be kept thoroughly 

 pure, entirely distinct, and great attention given to points 

 'generally. A higher class of fowl must be purchased in the 

 first instance; the diet must be more generous, si?-e beiiig a great 

 point with judges; and the whole buainess of poultry-keeping ie 



