128 ALUM CURD ROUP DIRECTIONS. 



silver pheasants you must pen earlier, or they will 

 be off. Cut the wing often ; and when first penned 

 feed all your young birds with barley-meal, dough, 

 corn, and plenty of green turnips. 



A Receipt to make Alum Curd. 



TAKE new milk, as much as your young birds re- 

 quire, and boil it with a lump of alum, so as not to 



make the curd hard and tough, but custard like. 



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N. B. A little of this curd twice a day, and ants' 

 eggs after every time they have had a sufficient 

 quantity of the other food. If they do not eat hear- 

 tily, give them some ants' eggs to create an appetite, 

 but by no means in such abundance as to be consi- 

 dered their food. 



The DISTEMPER alluded to above, is not impro- 

 bably of the same nature as the roup in chickens, 

 contagious, and dependent on the state of the 

 weather ; and for prevention requiring similar pre- 

 caution. 



GENERAL DIRECTIONS. Not more than FOUR 

 HENS to be allowed in the pens to one cock. And 

 in the OUT COVERS, three hens to one cock may be 

 sufficient, with the view of allowing for accidents, 

 such as the loss of a cock or hen. Never put more 

 EGGS under a hen than she can well and closely 

 cover, the eggs fresh and carefully preserved. 

 SHORT BROODS to be joined and shifted to one hen : 

 common hen pheasants in close pens, and with plenty 

 of cover, will sometimes make their NESTS and hatch 

 their own eggs : but they seldom succeed in rearing 



