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lice in the enameled panoply, remind us what we are in the 

 eight of The Ever-present. 



" And upon a set day, Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat 

 upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. And the 

 people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not 

 of a man. And immediately the angel of the Lord smote 

 him, because he gave not God the glory : and he was eaten 

 up of worms, and gave up the ghost." 



Let us be thankful for sorrows, humble and loving in good 

 fortune ; for it is of no use to sit in the sun, reflecting his 

 splendour by our trappings, and to be, like Herod, stricken 

 of worms at last. 



The following letter, received by the Editor, from an 

 esteemed correspondent, will, I am sure, be read with great 

 interest by the Poultry breeder and fancier. If its suggestions 

 be carried out to the letter, they will never have occasion to 

 complain of vermin. The sulphur of which he speaks has a 

 very decided tendency to the skin, and destroys the vermin on 

 poultry, as it is the parasite constituting the disease vulgarly 

 known as " the itch." 



Northumberland, Oct. 15, 1850. 



MY DEAR SIR, I have several tolerably good reasons for 

 not replying to you sooner absence, business, felon on the 

 finger, &c. 



You wish me to give my views on "Henology," and par- 

 ticularly in relation to poultry-houses. On this latter subject 

 I do not feel prepared, either by practice or in theory, to give 

 satisfactory or reliable information. 



In the country and in villages, where space is little worth, 

 and there is not much necessity for restriction, Fowls are gene- 

 rally allowed the " largest amount of liberty." And this, 

 with reasonable limitations, in connection with plentiful and 



