CHAP. XIV,] FARMING TOR LADIES. 289 



cooler place than the fowl-house — an open- 

 railed basket, left under cover in the poultry- 

 yard, being as good as any — and feed it upon 

 chopped lettuce, parsley, sorrel, or any green 

 vegetable, with a very small supply of corn. 

 This mode of management will sufficiently 

 relieve the degree of costiveness with which 

 the disease is generally accompanied, and 

 the opposite malady may be remedied by 

 pursuing the contrary system of warmth and 

 nourishing food. 



Among those accidents to which poultry 

 are subject, we shall only mention that occa- 

 sioned by their sometimes gorging themselves 

 either with too much food, or of some indiges- 

 tible kind, which remains in their craw, or first 

 stomach, in the same state in which it was 

 when eaten, and causes them, when this hap- 

 pens, to become crop-sick. It more frequently 

 occurs to chickens than to older fowls, and 

 pigeons are peculiarly exposed to it, from the 

 eagerness with which they devour their fa- 

 vourite beans. 



Should time not afford the bird ease, me- 

 dicine cannot, and an endeavour should be 

 made by the poultry-maid to relieve it of its 



