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their tails. Such of them as you intend 

 to turn out at a future time, or in another 

 phice, put into one pen netted over, and 

 leave their wings as they arc ; and those 

 you wish to keep for breeding put into 

 the other pen, cutting one wing of each 

 bird. The gold and silver pheasants you 

 must pen 6arher, or they will be oiT. 

 Cut the whig often ; and when first pen- 

 ned feed all your young birds with barley- 

 meal, dough, corn, and plenty of green 

 turnips. 



A Receipt to maJce Alum Curd. 



Take new milk, as much as your young 

 birds require, and boil it with a lump of 

 alum, so as not to make the curd hard and 

 tough, but custard like. 



N. B. A little of this curd twice a day, 

 and ants' eggs after every time they have 

 had a sufficient quantity of the other food. 

 If they do not eat heartily, give them some 

 ants' eggs to create an appetite, but by no 



