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•food. At the proper period 28 young ones were produced 5 

 and the cock, who was now in fome meafure the mother of 

 {o numerous an offspring, appeared a good deal perplexed 

 when he faw fomany little animals pecking around him and 

 requiring his continual vigilance; but as it is well known 

 that turkeys are fo ftupid and heedlefs that they often do not 

 fee where they tread, it was not thought proper to truft the 

 cock with this young brood anv longer, and they were reared 

 in another manner. M. Carlfon remarks on this circum- 

 ftance, that the total neglect of their young, afcribed to male 

 birds which affociate with a plurality of females, is not ge- 

 neral. Geefe are of this kind, and yet the gander protects 

 the young with the greateft care. But the inftance of a 

 turkey-cock fitting on eggs feems the more fingular, as both 

 in a wild and a tame ftate the males are accuftomed to de- 

 ftroy the nelfs of the females, in order that they may have 

 them fooner free for pairing ; and for this reafon the cock is 

 carefully feparated from the hen while flic is hatching. The 

 jn fiance related by M. Ocdmann is, therefore, the more re- 

 markable. 



XVI. Method of fe curing Trees from the prejudicial Effects of 

 ■FrojL By P. J. B. di Sanmartino. From Giornale 

 Encyclopedico di Vicenza. 



JL HE furefi: and moft proper method of protecting trees 

 from the deftructive influence of froft, is without doubt that 

 which nature itfelf prefents, and which requires to be only 

 a little affified by art; that is to fay, you muft deprive the 

 tree, which you wifh to defend from the froft, of all its leaves, 

 at a period fomewhat earlier than the time when they would 

 drop of themfelves. The fap then will be lefs accumulated 

 in the veffels; it will circulate more flowly, and at the fame 

 time become thicker. In that cafe it will not freeze fo readily, 

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