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Species
Common Fowls
Turkey's
Guinea Fowls
Pea-fowls
Pheasants Chinese
or other foreign
such as may be
kept under the
Game Laws
Partridges red legged
Quails
Ortolans
Roughs and Rees
Grouse
Moor Game &c
Pigeons
Plovers
Geese
Ducks
Rabbits — more
profitable than
Hogs?
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Food, quality?
Food, quantity?
per day per head?
Temperature proper before
hatching?
Temperature proper
after hatching.
Feeding — mode of
proper for each
Earliest age for
killing
Saleable value at
that age
Expence per head
per day after that
age
Saleable value per
head per number
of days old after
the earliest age.
Period after at which
f it is more profitable
to kill (even
without sale) than
keep.
Weight at different
ages of plucked &
unplucked.
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House
Warmth
Dryness
Cleanliness
Equality of feeding supply
Sufficiency of Room
No superfluity of Room
Prevention of fighting.
Security against
vermin.
Security against
disease.
Dimensions and
cubic content of a
Cell
Number of Cells
in a coop in length.
Numbers of tier of
Coops in height in
a story
No of stories in the
building
Aspect of the
building — make
one front South, the
other North for experiment
sake to see
whether the sight of exposure
to the rays of the Sun makes any
difference in point
of health.
If the building
were made to turn
upon a pivot, the
chickens might be
exposed to or withdrawn
from the Sun all at
pleasure.
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Offal
Dung Feathers
Feathers Dung
Entrails &c
Fowls that die of
themselves.
Portable Chicken
Soup
Boiled Chickens
potted in portable
Chicken Soup.
Boiled Chickens
potted in a mixture of portable
Chicken Soup with and
Ham Soup
Killing
Plucking
Gutting
Trussing
Operations
for the
Convicts
Female,
if any.
Each operation to
be performed by a
different person
for the sake of cleanliness
and responsibility.
Feathers how to be
sorted in plucking.
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Troughs S. B. case
V-shaped
Partition to the a trough
not to be fastened
to the trough, that
it may not be in
the way of cleaning
it, but threaded
on a rod.
Floors strewed with
lime to or other
manure, for making
a compost with the dung
False floors — duplicates
exactly similar:
that the foul
one may be pushed
out by the sticking
in of the clean one.
False floors and
troughs might be
cleaned by being
pushed under a
brush rotating
like a grindstone
the convexity of
the brush being
exactly adapted to
the concavity of the
trough or floor to
be cleaned
Perches — to strip
and unstrip for
the purpose of cleaning
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Advantages from
Hatch artificial hatching
in comparison of natural?
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Requirenda of
Feeders and Poulterers
No of fowls of each
sort each sells in
a year
Prices of at which each were
sold
Prices at which each
were bought
Expences between
the periods of buying
and selling.
Length of time that
an egg will keep
fresh enough for hatching
Length of time that
an egg will keep
fresh enough for eating.
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Different Houses for
different stages of
growth — advantages.
1. Saving so much
materials.
2. An interval betwixt
lath and lath that
would be no more
than sufficient for
a full- or half-
grown chicken would
let through into the trough the whole
body of a newly-
hatched one
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