re: on agriculture: Nou: 2%. 
that amusing and useful, study, that he is obliged to drop.a 
great part of his former correspondence, otherwise the 
Bee might have been ‘enriched with his occasional com- 
raunications, ashe much. approves its judicieus plan and 
useful tendency. You will receive inclosed however a pa+ 
per signed Nemo, from another writer in Rufsia, in a dif- 
ferent line, who has more’ leisure than the naturalist, 
and who proposes to contribute his mite occasionally tw 
the Bee.. AxcrTicus. 
MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS ON AGRICULTURE. : 
Sir, Yo the Editor of the Bee. 
Tam glad to see an attempt to make the Bee a vehicle’ 
for the communication of useful observations relating to 
domestic economy, and fhall be glad to contribute to 
give it a free course. } 
The exhibition.of the Languedocian mode of fattening 
geese and ducks is curious, 
The duck called Indian, i is the Anas Indica of Aldro- 
vand, and our Muscovy duck, which certainly tends to 
mmprove the size, though not the number or tranquillity of 
our duckeries, as he is a most:impetuous drake, and ex- 
tremely irregular in his connections, in so much that FE 
was once forced to expel him from my poultry yard: 
We are not sufficiently attentive to the economy of 
feeding poultry of any kind, which brings that amusing 
and useful department of female economy into dis- 
repute. 
I fhould be glad to see this inconvenience removed; 
by a distinct account of profit and lofs, upon a systema- 
tic plan of rearing these useful birds, and others, upon @ 
large scale, both for private use, and for the market. 
The goose is monogamous; and if you give him more 
females than one, he becomes so far uselefs, and afterwards _ 
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