Show breeding peafowl for ornament and profit on a farm pea fowls may be kept without much trouble they are very lery ornamental birds and always arrest attention jt it is perhaps expensive to start ok off with a pen of these birds which would require to consist of four hens and one cock but doubtless they wo would 11 id r return e tu 1 I a profit in hatching eggs and in ID young birds for sale when birds are first installed it Is necessary to watch that they do not wander too far away which they might be inclined to do before they get settled down to a new place which they will do in two or three weeks time the owner should endeavor to encourage them to roost in an open fronted shed like the turkey v the peahen likes to select a hedge t hatch out her young As it a rule she will sit when sho lias has laid from 8 to 10 eggs the incubation period ts is one of 28 days and the ithe youngsters are as a rule very active and bright the mother hen broods them for or a long time |