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The food should consist of Scotch oatmeal, made into dough with 
milk, and with a supply of milk only to drink. Before another 
lot of fowls are put up, the coop should be thoroughly cleansed, 
scoured, and purified with a solution of chloride of lime. It 
is well, however, to keep a good breeding stock of fowls for 
the purpose of supplying fresh eggs all the year round, selecting 
a good breed or breeds, and keeping them pure for the sake 
of taste and appearance. 
PouLTRr-Coop, ON Baiia's ri.AN. 
No better eggs can be had than those yielded by the various 
classes of Hamburghs. They are small, but well-flavoured and 
abundant ; they should be gathered every morning, and delivered 
over to the care of the housekeeper or cook at once, as a guarantee 
for their freshness. They are entered in the yard-book, and charged 
at per score or per hundred, half-yearly, in the gross. But as the 
Hamburghs can hardly be depended upon for rearing chickens, 
another plan must be adopted for the renewal of stock-birds. This 
can easily be managed by hatching with mongrel hens at another 
yard or homestead ; or, if that is not practicable, then arrange- 
ments may be made with any cottagers who are in the habit of 
rearing poultry for sale. Supply the eggs and chicken-food, and 
take the birds at 2>d., Ad., or 6rf. each, at the time they are able to 
