XVI CONTENTS. 



growth — Pate de foie gras — Mode of enlarging the liver — 

 Prejudices — Plucking of the feathers — Age and character 

 of the goose p. 249 



CHAPTER XIII. 



Wild ducks: their nature and habits — Decoys — The do- 

 mestic duck — Description and choice of breed — Muscovy 

 duck — Nests — Hatching — Eggs — Rearing and fattening of 

 ducklings — Feeding of store ducks — Cost of fatting — 

 Weight — Fish-ponds and pike — Anecdote respecting crows 

 — Oily glands 264 



CHAPTER XIV. 



Diseases : regimen and remedies — The roup, and its causes 

 — Notion of its being infectious — The pip and gapes: 

 symptoms and manner of treatment — Fever — Crop-sick, 

 and means of cure — Moulting — Old age and death — 

 Mode of killing — General treatment — Poultry-maid. 283 



CHAPTER XV. 



Breeds of pigeons — The stock- dove, the wood-pigeon, and 

 the cushat — Migratory flights — The turtle-dove — The car- 

 rier, and its speed — English species — The domestic dove- 

 house pigeon — Pairing and breeding — Nests and hatching 

 — Dove-cotes: building and arrangement of different 

 sorts — Her Majesty's — Flesh and flavour of the pigeon — 

 Food — Cost — Appetite for salt — Attachment to home — 

 Anecdote— Salt-cat— Diseases 294 



CHAPTER XVI. 



j^: Rabbits : propagation and produce of, in a wild and do- 

 mestic state — Breeds — Hutches — Warrens — Feeding — 

 Expense and profit — Long-eared breeds — Diseases . 322 



