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with admirable foresight, put up an apparatus for boiling down 
fruit, if the prices offered lor it when raw do not suit his ideas. 
Fruit-growing is a most interesting and engrossing occupa- 
tion, and, taking an average of seasons, is also most profitable. 
As has been shown, it may be commenced in a small way, — in 
the garden of the farm, and gradually extended as circumstances 
may warrant. The chief objection to its adoption hitherto by 
tenants — that so much time elapsed before any return could be 
made — has been removed by the introduction of trees of dwarf 
and early fruit-bearing habit, in the shape of half-standard 
pyramids and bushes as regards apples, pears, and plums ; and 
a tenant protected by a long lease and by assurance of com- 
pensation for improvement, which most landlords would be 
glad to give in these days, may venture to cultivate these fruits. 
In the case of other fruits, it has been shown that in two or 
three years the bushes will begin to bear, and soon become 
remunerative. 
III.- r/te Poultry of the Farm. By the Rev. W. .J. Pope, 
Godmanstone Rectory, Dorsetshire.* 
Poultry-keeping is a subject which has lately received an 
unusual amount of serious attention ; to make the most of 
everything must be the rule on a farm ; to waste nothing 
should be the endeavour of every housekeeper. In these trying 
times we cannot afford to despise small things ; not that poultry- 
keeping could ever have been justly styled or deemed unworthy 
of attention, but now we specially want all our wits at work. 
Such a competition is going on between us and the foreigner, 
that all our resources must be looked into carefully, or the 
weakest will soon go to the wall. Our energies must be em- 
ployed to prevent the loss of anything, either worth keeping or 
capable of conversion into something useful and valuable ; and 
so the stray corns on a farm otherwise wasted, and the scraps 
from a house are to be duly utilised by poultry-keeping. But 
apart from the £ s. d. aspect of the matter, much might be said 
of the poultry-yard as a school for the youth, wherein he may 
acquire habits of regularity, or carry on such a cultivation of 
the eye as may enable it to take in readily the condition, points, 
and requirements of the live-stock of the farm ; or even where 
people of all ages may find a profitable amusement during what 
otherwise might be idle hours ; but my instructions tell me to 
endeavour to be plain, practical, and concise, and the import- 
* This paper has been published in pamphlet form by the Eoyal Agricultural 
Society, price Grf. 
