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said, "they become as quiet as men who 

 are fettered at the feet, hands, and neck ;" 

 and old Mascall, an English author, who 

 formerly wrote largely on husbandry, de- 

 scribes the mode of operation to be thus : 

 " Ye shall slitte two pieces of thicke leather, 

 and put them on his legges, and those will 

 hang over his feete, which will slake that 

 heate of jealousie whiche is within him." 

 On this we have had no personal experience, 

 though we think it might not be found a bad 

 plan, and the trial can do no harm. Clip- 

 ping off the spurs, and afterwards singeing 

 the stumps with hot iron, when the chicks 

 are quite young, will also have a good effect ; 

 but perhaps the most effectual of all is to 

 convert those which are bred solely for the 

 table into capons, in the same manner as the 

 Dorkings. 



Perhaps the most esteemed breed in com- 

 mon use throughout the southern counties of 

 England is the Dorking : so named from a 

 small town in Surrey, in which they were 

 probably either originally bred, or from which 

 they were brought into notice by their in- 

 troduction for the supply of the London mar- 



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