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spare no pains or trouble in looking after and thoroughly \mder- 

 standing the requirements of their stock, and they need not 

 fear but that the result will be satis&ctory. 



To buy pens, nests, rent land, pay a man to look after the 

 stock, waste money in sundries and expensive food, buy useless 

 items, and hand oyer all trouble to subordinates, m not the uoj/ 

 to makt poultry pay. 



While, on the other hand, to look after a little poultry-yard 

 yourself, to vary the food by economising all kitchen refuse, 

 buying up cargo rice and second-class grain — ^which is really 

 quite good enough for fowls, and better suited to them than very 

 good barley, oats, or wheat — ^never to allow food to be wasted, 

 nor to keep an old and useless st^cik, is tlie way to insure certain 

 tmdU profit*, if those will content you; 



In trying to grasp too much you stand a chance of losing even 

 more than the original outlay. A great many people, who have 

 now little plots of ground suitable for fowls, but standing empty, 

 are deterred from keeping poultry by the idea that it is so expen- 

 sive a proceeding, and that they will eventually be out of pocket 

 by it. So they will, certainly, if they commence on too large a 

 scale; but if they began with a dozen or two dozen fowls, and 

 and kept the original stock down to that number, only allowing 

 the chickens for Icilling during the season, and pullets for laying 

 to swell the numbers each year, then we should hear less about 

 imuitry expenses, and more about eggs and chickens. 



"Sow with regard to commencing operations. Bsahuas, Lbg- 

 BOBHs, FiiTMOTiTH RocKS and IiAnasHAirs are the fowls I should 

 keep. Brahmas as winter layers, good sitters, and good mothers; 

 Plymouth Bocks as good aU round, and Langshans are esx>ecially 

 for table. 



Thenumber of hensi would allow to each cock would be; 

 Leghorns, twelve hens to each cock; Brahmas, eight hens to one 

 cock; Plymouth Bocks, six hens' to one cock; Lsmgahans, six 

 hens to one cock. 



