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1. Fowls and pigs may be fed on sound flesh, raw and cooked; on flcsli, 

 raw and cooked, of animals affected with contagious diseases, as glanders, 

 malignant pustule, hydi-o[ihobia, etc. ; and even on llesh, raw or cooked, in 

 a veiy advanced state of putrefaction, without any alteration in their health. 



2. Cliickcns are reared with ditliculty if tlieir food be restricted to flesh, 

 raw or cooked, even when sound ; and a larger number of them perish than 

 when fed on ordinary kinds of food. 



3. Tiie eggs of fowls thus nourished are as palatable as the eggs of fowls 

 nourished in the common way. The shell, however, is thinner and more 

 easily broken. 



•i. The flesh of fowls and pigs nourished on flesh raw or cooked, is softer, 

 more diflicult to preserve, and the fat is yellow and more diftluent. 



T). The doctor has still doubts as to the aljsolute wholesomcness of fowls 

 and pigs fed on animals dying of glanders, etc., and recommends that the 

 use of the flesh of such animals should be prohibited for the rearing of fowls 

 and pigs. 



G. The use of flesh in a state of putrefaction, for similar purposes, should 

 be absolutely prohibited as unwholesome. 



7. Fowls should not be fed too long or too abundantly on worms, cater- 

 pillars, beetles, etc., as such food communicates a strong taste to the flesh. 



8. The continued use of flesh, otherwise healthy, and cither raw or cooked, 

 ultimately injures the growth of the fowls and the quality of their flesh. 



9. The best method of rearing undoubtedly is, to give flesh but once a 

 day, and to finish with a meal of grain. 



10. For market use, the use of flesh should be stopped, and the fowls re- 

 stricted for some time to the use of a vegetable diet. 



170. (Iioicc of a {'ock. — In breeding, the choice of a cock is a very import- 

 ant matter. The following arc some of the " points" insisted upon by 

 poultry fanciers : 



It io accounted that he has every requisite quality, when lie is of good 

 size, carries his head high, has a quick and animated look, a strong, shrill 

 voice, the bill thick and short, the comb a fine red, and in a manner var- 

 nished ; a membraneous wattle of a large size, and colored the same as tlie 

 comb, the breast broad, the wings strong, the thighs very muscular, the logs 

 thick, the claws with nails rather bent, and with a very keen jioint ; when 

 he is free in his motions, crows often, and scratches the earth with vigor and 

 is constantly in search of worms — not so much for himself as liis mates — 

 when he is spirited, ardent, and clever in caressing them, quick in detending 

 them, attentive in soliciting them to eat, in keeping them together in the 

 <hiv, and assembling them at night. 



There are some cocks, which, by being too liigh mettled, are snappish and 

 quarrelsome. The way to quiet the turbulent ones is plain : their foot must 

 be put through a leather, in a round shajie ; they become as quiet as men 

 who are fettered at tlieir liamls, feet, and neck. 



ISO. The Varictifs of fomnioii rowls.— As to the variety to be chosen, that 



