A treatise on domestic poultry, pigeons and rabbits, with a practical account of the Egyptian method of hatching eggs by artificial heat; and all the needful particulars relative to breeding, rearing, and management ... / By Bonington Moubray, Esq. [pseud. i.e. J. Lawrence].

  • Lawrence, John, 1753-1839.
Date:
1815
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Credit: A treatise on domestic poultry, pigeons and rabbits, with a practical account of the Egyptian method of hatching eggs by artificial heat; and all the needful particulars relative to breeding, rearing, and management ... / By Bonington Moubray, Esq. [pseud. i.e. J. Lawrence]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bolds, with respect to this country, where the warmest and dryest soils are best adapted to this production, more espe- cially of the chicken and the turkey. POPULAR OPINION. It has been a general and popular topic of declamation that, in former and pre- sumed happier times, our small farmers’ wives reared a superior quantity of poul- try, to that which has been produced of late years; a position, at best, very ques- tionable, since poultry has never yet risen in price, beyond the proportion of other articles of food, and since the demand of the markets has been supplied in as full a measure as formerly. Suppose a heath or common, on which poultry has been customarily bred, is inclosed and improved into farms, is it not probable that, gene- rally at least, as large a quantity of poul- try is reared, as upon the land in its former state of waste ? In fact, it is open to the observation of every one that, poultry b 2