2219. A single dozen fowls, properly attended, will furnish a family with more than 2,000 eggs in a year, and 100 full-grown chickens for fall and winter stores.
2220. Expense.—The expense of feeding the dozen fowls will not amount to 18 bushels of Indian corn. They may be kept in cities as well as in the country, and will do as well shut up the year round as to run at large, with proper care.
2221. A Fact.—Eggs the nearest to roundness produce females, and those pointed at one end always produce males.
2222. For Fattening.—Boiled Indian, wheat and barley, is better than oats, rye, or buckwheat. One-third is gained by boiling.
2223. Eggs, little boiled or poached, in small quantity, convey much nourishment; the yolk only should be eaten by invalids.