228 f Founds, Remedies, Vermin, Crop. 



iNG TIME, a season at which all kinds of 

 poultry should be carefully sheltered and 

 attended. 



Wounds upon the head, or the Wat- 

 tles of Carriers, and Barbs, to be treated 

 as already directed for chickens ; but if 

 the parts should canker as it is styled, wash 

 with stale urine, or alum and water, or 

 any spirit and water ; or make an unguent 

 of burnt alum and honey ; or mix twenty 

 grains of red precipitate with half an ounce 

 of honey; or dissolve five grains of vitriol, 

 in half a table-spoonful of vinegar, and 

 mix with the above, alum and honey. 

 Pigeons are Uable to several peculiar in- 

 ternal complaints of weakness, for which 

 it is probable that prevention, or subsequent 

 care, are the only remedies. A variety of 

 remedies are offered for vermin in pigeons, 

 such as stavesacre, tobacco, snuff, and si- 

 milar articles, but the only effectual one is 



strict CLEANLINESS. 



Croppers particularly, are apt to gorge 

 themselves and all young pigeons arc 

 occasionally subject to have the crop 



