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554 POULTRY.

unless watched. Take away the chicks as fast as hatched. Feed with curd, barley-meal, ant’s-eggs‘

&c. Keep the brood up for a month, turning out»

a few hours in a day; in a secure place, taking care the hen does not drag them through wet grass, she being entirely careless of them. Give skimmed- milk to drink. The practice of cold-bathing young turkies, and giving them a pepper-corn, is merely notional. Keep very clean and dry, and prevent the young from scouring, which is fatal. Gravel;

boiled fiesh-meat chopped. up, is strengthening,

both to young turkies and chickens.

Piceons set seventeen days, and always pair, seldom laying more than two eggs. The cock and hen set alternately. They breed all the year round, in the dove-house. The small sort, called TUMBLERS, are most attached to home, and very good breeders, Feed with tares, or any corn; but they are remarkably fond of bird-seed. Keep the dove-cote extremely clean, in which pigeons much delight; sand the bottom, whitewash the walls, and place the boxes against the wall, two to each pair, out of the reach of vermin. Pigeons ought to be fed at home, that they may trespass as little as possible.

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