PRACTICAL PHEASANT REARING. 



bottoms of the coops inhabited by the young poults 

 affected by the disease with this mixture, just before 

 the time that they will naturally seek the coop for 

 shelter during the night. When you have watched 

 the young birds well in, shut up the front of the coop 

 with a board, and exclude in every possible way as 

 much of the external air as you can ; the heat from the 

 bodies of the birds will cause the carbolic fumes to 

 ascend from the sawdust, and the young birds cannot 

 but inhale the same. I can easily suggest a plan by 

 which a quantity of birds could be treated at once viz., 

 by heating in a furnace a sufficient surface of earthen- 

 ware tiles, taking these out with iron pincers (after 

 the hospitable fashion of entertaining visitors related 

 in " She," of the amiable aborigines about whom Mr 

 Haggard so delightfully discourses), volatilising a 

 sufficient quantity of pure carbolic acid by pouring it 

 upon the red-hot tiles, and suspending your birds in 

 the fumes encaged in a broad, low, flat hamper, 

 similar to those we send away live rabbits and hares 

 in, with the partitions pulled out ; and, when asphyxia- 

 tion has apparently taken place, turning them out 

 again, when most doctors agree that the " worm will 

 in this case have died ; " but, unfortunately, the 

 objections to this seemingly simple plan are manifold, 

 and, I fear, insuperable. In the first place, there is 

 the difficulty of catching such a lot of half grown 

 birds, for, as a rule, the gapes attack the older birds 

 more than the young ones ; and then again there are 



