. The Farm-poultry . Faverolles Hen. the best returns, and the produce should be marketedwith tlie east possible delay. An important branch of Irish poultry keeping is theexport of live chickens to the fattening centers of Surreyand Sussex, there to be subjected to three weeks offorced feeding, and despatched to London and otherfirst rate markets as Surrey or Sussex fowls. Theyarrive in this country in vast quantities, but while theactual price paid for the birds is unsatisfactory to theproducer, it is even more so to the fattener, as the highrailway rates add a very considerable amount to the
. The Farm-poultry . Faverolles Hen. the best returns, and the produce should be marketedwith tlie east possible delay. An important branch of Irish poultry keeping is theexport of live chickens to the fattening centers of Surreyand Sussex, there to be subjected to three weeks offorced feeding, and despatched to London and otherfirst rate markets as Surrey or Sussex fowls. Theyarrive in this country in vast quantities, but while theactual price paid for the birds is unsatisfactory to theproducer, it is even more so to the fattener, as the highrailway rates add a very considerable amount to the Irish people seem at last to have realized—though. Silver Gray DorkinS Cock. it has taken them years to arrive at this very elementaryconclusion—that it will pay them better to fatten thechickens themselves, and send them to our marketsdead, in this manner securing the fatteners profit aswell as their own, besides which effecting a further sav-ing on the carriage, as the rate for dead stuff is, of course,much lower than for live. In a few districts fatteningestablishments have been started which pr^>mise well, andthere is little doubt but that in two or three years timewe shall find the trade has grown to large proportions. Ducks, geese, and turkeys all receive a certain amountof attention in Ireland, but in each case a great deal
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