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adopted the plan recommended by Sir Henry 
Steuart, and notwithstanding the great difference 
of climate between this and Scotland, where Sir 
Henry wrote, by taking up a large ball of earth 
with them, he has succeeded thus far better than 
could have been anticipated. Mr. Johnson would 
show his apparatus for transplanting with pleas¬ 
ure, and give any details required by those who 
are desirous of making the experiment of trans¬ 
planting. 
TWIN CHICKENS. 
We recollect in our early days, when to possess 
a fine fleck of poultry was the summit of our 
worldly ambition, of being told that eggs with 
double yolks would produce twin chickens. But 
among the numerous eggs that we continued to 
set from year to year of this kind, we never ob¬ 
tained any produce, nor were our acquaintances 
more lucky than ourselves; we therefore conclu¬ 
ded that it was an “ old woman’s notion,” hatch¬ 
ing twin chickens from double*yoik eggs, and gave 
the matter up in despair, thinking, at least, that 
our birds were not destined to increase by this 
two-fold process. That eggs with double yolks 
will produce twin chickens there is now no longer 
a doubt in our minds ; for in a recent visit to the 
Casina, the beautiful residence at Hurl-Gate Neck, 
of G. M. Woolsey, Esq., we saw one of such a 
pair. It was produced by the care of his factotum 
of the aviary, a stout, hearty Scotchwoman. Of 
£his there can be no dispute; for, observing that 
one large egg under one of her setting hens had 
riot hatched the day after all the other chickens 
came out, she carefully broke the end of the shell 
and picked it open, when out popped two strong 
live chickens, which she had not the slightest diffi¬ 
culty in raising. One proved a cock, the other a 
pullet. The latter we saw, and a fine little bird 
it is. The cock had been sold to go to market a 
few days before we visited the Casina; but in de¬ 
scribing it, the good woman said : “ It was, indeed, 
■a very pratty beast.” Now hatching twin chick¬ 
ens may be very common with some, and they 
may be inclined to smile over the simple tale we 
have so circumstantially told; but the real fact 
occurring beyond dispute, being new to us, we 
have thought it worthy a grave record in our jour¬ 
nal. We are of opinion now that double-yolk 
eggs will produce twin chickens, perhaps as surely 
as single eggs, and the reason that they do not 
eftener, is, probably, because the shell is so thick 
that the chicken, can not break it and escape. 
The person above, gave it as her opinion that her 
twin chickens could never have broken through 
the egg-shell, it was so much stronger and thick¬ 
er than those of single yolks. 
Pigs Brought up without Sucking. —The same 
good woman showed us a fine litter of seven Berk¬ 
shire pigs, which she brought up without sucking; 
their dam having died almost instantly after giving 
birth to them. We doubt whether any other pigs 
than Berkshire® would have had the sense to live 
and do well under such adverse circumstances. 
COUNTRY VILLA.— (Fig. 1.) 
Above we present our readers with the view of 
a country villa, the architecture of which, though 
rather ambitious, has been much admired, and is 
somewhat in vogue in this vicinity. We think 
the style better adapted for the south than the 
north. There, Venetian blinds, to open and shut 
at pleasure, would be inserted between the pillars, 
which would make the piazza a cool place to sit 
in, and extremely pleasant. The same idea may 
be adopted at the north in summer, and glass with 
three feet or so of panels at the bottom, could be 
substituted for them in winter, transforming the 
piazza thus into a beautiful conservatory during 
this dreary season of the year. 
SHELTER FOR STOCK. 
It has afforded us much satisfaction in varioti'* 
excursions which we have made through tin? 
country for the past few years, to observe the 
greatly increased attention that is paid by the 
farmers to the comfortable shelter of their stock. 
Many is the bam, with its accompanying stables, 
and sheds, and yards, we have found—admirable 
examples of their kind, and approaching as near 
to perfection as it is possible perhaps to attain. 
If these could be more extensively copied it would 
