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well as my 'Turkeys, for some time from beingover ravenous when they came Home. I had soSyeat an Increase of all these, besides a goodQuantity of Eggs, that one Third Part of themWere fold in the Markets for upwards of 3 /.t° which was above one Third more than theValue of the extraordinary Food required forreeding the Fowls remaining in Farm, and what!?il e might reckon for the Attendance of the

Woman that look’d after them.

But I cannot fend you an Account of thisNature, without observing, that many may beled into Errors by breeding of Fowls, if they00 not first consider, that every Farm whichWul Lett for 200 1 , per Annum , will not maintainso many Fowls as I have mention'd; and, onthe other Hand, some Farms of the fame Rentwill maintain as many more. To the first, sup-pose the Lands are Meadow or Pasture, whatgreat Advantage can that bring for the keepingm Poultry? The Barn Door, in that Cafe, wdl■ be lean, and the Fowls starve, without as muchbood bought in, as will eat off the Heads of theb Q wls; like what I have observ’d at some pri-v ^te Houses, where they keep a large Numoer*7 poultry, and having no Corn Grounds ineir Hands, are forced to feed them at an Lx-P e nce (which though it is but little at a time)^mounts in the Year, to double what the Poui-tr y IS worth.

But where such a Farrn is chiefly or whollycultivated for Corn, many more Poultry may bfjcepc upon it than I have in mine ; and it wo.!c well, if we cou ld rightly proportion the. umber: For else we may be Losers by ke< o-tOQ few, as much as if we were to over-stock

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