POULSON 331 POULTRY POULSON, NIELS, an American manufacturer; born in 1843, in Den- mark, and at the age of 21 came to the United States as an architect and builder in charge of a department in the New York Architectural Iron Works. In 1897 he entered business for himself, his firm being incorporated as the Hecla Architectural Iron Works. He inter- ested himself in providing free technical instruction for his employees and also gave in 1910 the sum of $100,000 to parts of the body, or the like; a cata- plasm. POULTRY, a general name for all birds bred for the table, or kept for their eggs. The birds most commonly included under this designation are the common fowl, the peafowl, the guinea fowl, the turkey, goose, and duck. There is this great difference between the varieties of the domestic fowl, that some are disposed by constitution to continue laying throughout the whole season without sit- r^s^ POULTRY 1. Light Brahma 2. Buff Orpington 3. Brown Leghorn 4. Indian Game Maintain an exchange of professorships between the United States and Scandi- navian countries. His fortune of $600,000 was left at his death to the cause of education. POULTICE, a soft composition, as of bread, meal, bran, or a mucilaginous sub- stance, to be applied to sores, inflamed ting : while others after having laid from 12 to 15 eggs sit obstinately, and cease to lay. Among the breeds most in favor are those known as Dorking, Game, Rhode Island Reds, Hamburg, Cochin, Brahma, Scots Gray, Polish, Spanish, Leghorn, Plymouth Rock, Houdan, Mi- norca, etc. Hatching by artificial means has long been practiced in Egypt, and
