The poultry yard and market; a practical treatise on gallinoculture,

Abstract

fire, and lie said his method was the result of fifty years' deep meditation and trials. In this pamphlet he does not give the key of his method, but asks for. subscriptions to buy his ovens, and to induce amateurs to try it, he gives statistics of the profit each hatching gave every year. Bonnemain, moreover, assures us that he did obtain this success during fifteen years, and it was only after his establishment was ruined by the invading armies, that he asks for aid and assistance from the government, capitalists, and amateurs ; but all failed him,, either from disdain, want of confidence, or from political motives. The price of his boxes was very high, the small ones costing $2 00 an egg, and large ones 75 cents. His fire regulator was considered a very useful invention. Martial Bonnes, mathematical professor and astron