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seeds, or cordial horse-ball in their food, form the 

 best dependence. They are in course most liable 

 at MOULTING TIME, a season at which all kinds of 

 poultry should be carefully sheltered and attended. 



WOUNDS upon the head, or the WATTLES of 

 Carriers and Barbs, to be treated as already directed 

 for chickens ; but if the parts should CANKER, as it 

 is styled, wash with stale urine, or alum and water, 

 or any spirit and water : or make an unguent of 

 burnt alum and honey ; or mix twenty grains of red 

 precipitate with half an ounce of honey ; or dissolve 

 five grains of white vitriol in half a table-spoonful 

 of vinegar, and mix with the above, alum and 

 honey. Pigeons are liable to several peculiar in- 

 ternal complaints of weakness, for which it is pro- 

 bable that prevention, or subsequent care, are the 

 only remedies. A variety of remedies are offered 

 for vermin in pigeons, such as stavesacre, tobacco, 

 snuff, and similar articles, but the only effectual one 



is Strict CLEANLINESS. 



Croppers, particularly, are apt to GORGE them- 

 selves, and all young pigeons are occasionally sub- 

 ject to have the crop obstructed by receiving too 

 great a quantity of food, and too speedily, for di- 

 gestion. The first, or old pigeons in this state, 

 may be treated as already directed for fowls. The 

 crops of the squabs being gently stroked upwards 

 with the fingers, will generally be cleared a bean at 

 a time : should this method fail, which will seldom 

 happen, the usual incision may be made. The VER- 

 TIGO, MEGRIM, or GIDDINESS in pigeons, arises pro- 

 bably from some error of diet, or keeping, and I 



