Live Stock, Poyliry—Fowls—Syftem of Management of. 1209

experiments, we are likewife inclined to believe that pea meal employed in the fame way poflefles a fiill more fattening property, and is at the fame time more economical, as going much further. A confinement of feven or eight days in this way will in general be fufficient for effeCling the bufinefs of fattening. When kept up long, fowls ate extremely apt to be affeCted with difeafe.. Whatever fort of food is:made ufe of, free air and a perfe@ flate of cleannefs is effential in all the utenfils cmployed for the purpofe, in order to prevent the food becoming acid, and the fowls affe@ted with difeafe.

It is ftated by Mr. Jackfon, in the fixth volume of the“ Commercial Agricultural and ManufuGturer’s Magazine,” that he has found that“ three pounds of meal, flour, or grain of fuch a fort as docs not coft more than one penny a pound, or to the farmer and cottager not even fo much, with water, and what other fare the little creature can find for itfelf, will feed and fatten a chicken fufficiently from the time of its burfting the fhell till that of its being of a growth and in a condition fuitable for its being carried to market.” And that the allowance of another penny is fufficient“ for the attention and labour which its rearing requires. The prime coft of the egg may be one halfpenny.”” Thus he conceives that even in the vicinity of any great town‘a chicken that fhail bring ninepence, or rather one fhilling in the market, and is, in comparifon with other things, worth as much for the ufe, of your own table whether you be a rich or poor man, may be produced and reared at the expenfe of fourpence-halfpenny.” And it is further contended, that in proportion as fowls are kept for the confumption of the portion of-farinaceous food that is in daily wafte about farm-houfes, the expenfe cannot be more than one penny; confequently by attention to this economical mode we may have abundance of poultry at a reafonable rate. It is alfo ftated that old fowls,“ even though fed with food for which money proportionate to the juft market value muft be paid, will, by their eggs, pay annually at leaft three times the cot of their fubfiftence;”’ befides the advantage of the manure which they produce.

An intercfting fyfiem of management for poultry is ftated by Mr. Young in his Calendarof Hutbandry, aspractifed by Mrs, Boys of Kent. It is fimply this:“* The labourers’ wives and families who live on Mr. Boys’s farm do the whole; he fupplies them with what offal corn is neceflary, and they return Mrs, Boys the grown fowls ready for market at threepence each; fixpence for turkeys and geefe, and threepence for ducks; and her aceount, well kept, fiates a profit of twenty pounds a year, after all expenfes are paid and the family well fupplied.” She has alfo all the eggs without any payment.” It is remarked that this fyflem of

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