Old Receipts — Properties. 1 99 



gallon of each — should lime be substituted 

 for rubbish, a less quantity of the former 

 will suffice — one pound of cummin-seed, 

 one handful of bay salt ; mix with stale 

 urine. Inclose this in jars, corked or 

 stopped, holes being punched in the sides, 

 to admit the beaks of the pigeons. These 

 may be placed abroad. 



Many fanciful and groundless tales may 

 be found in old books, relative to the 

 MEDICINAL and REMEDIAL properties of 

 almost every part of the pigeon; thus 

 much, however, may be relied on, their 

 flesh, when young and in good condition, 

 is a nourishing and stimulant diet ; that of 

 the full-aged pigeon more substantial, but 

 harder of digestion, and, in a considerable 

 degree, heating. The general rule of co- 

 lour affecting quality in the flesh, holds 

 good in tame pigeons. The black and 

 dark-feathered are proportionally dark or 

 brown fleshed, of high flavour, inclining to 

 the game bitter of the wild pigeon. The 

 light colour in the feathers, denotes light 

 and delicate flesh. Their dung is of an 



