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will serve as well, stuffed, and will last you twen- 

 ty years; there are some who have used an owl 

 cut in wood, and naturally painted, with wonder- 

 ful success. 



Jl Secret to hinder Pigeons from quitting a Pigeon 

 House. 



Take the head and feet of a gelt goat, and boil 

 them together till the flesh separates from the 

 bone; take this flesh and boil it again in the same 

 liquor, till the whole is consumed; bruise into this 

 decoction, which is very thick, some potters 

 earth, out of which you are to take all the stones, 

 vetch, dung, hemp, food, and corn; the whole 

 must be kneaded together, and reduced to a paste 

 or dough, which form into small loaves about the 

 thickness of two fists, and dry them in the sun or 

 oven, and take care it do not burn; when they 

 are baked, lay them in several parts of the pigeon- 

 house, and as soon as they set there the pigeons 

 will amuse themselves with pecking them, and 

 finding some taste therein, which pleases them 

 they will keep so close to it, that they will not 

 afterwards leave it but with regret. Others take 

 a handful of salt which they candy, and after- 

 wards put into the pigeon-house. 



Birds. Get white orpiment, barley, wheat, or 

 any other grain that birds love, boil them to- 

 gether, and throw where birds come, and you may 

 catch them presently, yet not the worse to eat. 

 Birds, to keep from Fruit. 



Hang a bundle of garlick on a branch of a tree, 

 or lay it on your corn stalks, and they will not touch 

 your fruit. Some smear their tree branches with 

 juice of garlick. 



To catch Birds. 



Get such seed as fowls love, mix it with grated 



