Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Breeding, Invention, Steam-power, Animal Husbandry, Animal Development

    Responds to Mr Cantelo's claim in the Morning Post that he can produce an average of seventy-five chickens from one hundred eggs. Thinks Cantelo's scheme to 'produce poultry for the million' is too costly a public operation but a worthwhile 'private speculation'.