De his qui ornithoboscion instituere vult, id est adhibita scientia ac cura ut capiant magnos fructus, ut factitaverunt Deliaci, haec quinque maxime animadvertant oportet: de emptione, cuius modi et quam multas parent; de fetura, quem ad modum admittant et pariant; de ovis, quem ad modum incubent et excudant; de pullis, quem ad modum et a quibus educentur; hisce appendix adicitur pars quinta, quem ad modum saginentur.
One who wants to set up a poultry-farm of these'that is, wants to gain a large profit by the exercise of knowledge and care, as the Delians generally have done'should observe especially the following five points: purchase, including the breed and number to secure; breeding, including the manner of mating and laying; eggs, including the manner of sitting and hatching; chicks, including the manner of rearing and the birds by which they are reared; and to these is added, as an appendix, the fifth topic'the method of fattening.
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