68 - POUtTHT-KEBPING. 



rather tender, and more fit for the fancier than for the pracfioal 

 man. For a deskable "all round" breed, I should recommend 

 the Plymouth Bocks. At any rate I have described the different 

 breeds, given you their good and bad points, and you may take 

 your choice. 



SORTS FOR SMALL YARDS. 



If you have only a limited space to aUow for your birds, do not 

 keep too many at first. Possibly, as you find your poultry, 

 answer, you may wish to considerably increase your stock, and 

 so will have to enlarge your premises, which by that time you 

 maybe able to do; besides, you ^ill have gained experience 

 during the time you have been looking after a limited number, 

 and will have learned many things respecting the nature of fowls, 

 their ^abits, diseases, constitutions, and general characteristic^ 

 of which before you were entirely ignorant. - ' 



My own opinion is, I own, entirely against a very large poultiy- 

 fiarm. I should always prefer having a small one under my own 

 immediate eye to possessing a quantity of birds and being obliged 

 to keep a man or woman to look after them. 



If people want to loi6 money by poultry let them mass them in 

 numbers, and they will soon gain the desired result. I^ on the 

 contrary, they will be content with modest profits, and patientlj; 

 turn over pennies instead of expecting to turn over dollars, then 

 Jet them keep poultry on a small scale, attend to them themselevsi 



