66 Prevention of Silting, 8^c. 



after sitting over her eggs a sufficient num- 

 ber of hours to addle them, will then desert 

 iiiem : and probably in the course of a few 

 days, will be taken with another fit of in- 

 cubation. ' 



Much useless cruelty is too often exer- 

 cised, to PREVENT the hen from sitting, 

 when eggs, rather than chickens, are iii 

 request ; such, for example, as immersing 

 her head, or whole body in water, whieii 

 I have witnessed with regret, the hen, as 

 £oon as dry, running to her nest, althoitgh 

 ihQ dipping has been repeated several 

 days following. But granting nature could 

 be tlius put out of her cours'?, it is not 

 probable that eggs would be obtained ear- 

 lier than by sulFering \!p.e hen to sit, since 

 the improper treatment, and the disappoint- 

 ment combined, arc nearly an equal impedi- 

 ment both to laying and sitting. 



I am sorry to see a late useful and well 

 written publication disgraced by barbari- 

 ties similar to those above described. The 

 author, unreflectingly without doubt, re- 

 commends to thrust a feather throus:!! the 



