NETTED PENS ALUM CURD ROUP. 141 



with corn, fruits, and shrubs, &c. &c. they will shift 

 for themselves. 



For such young pheasants as you make choice of 

 for your breeding stock at home, and likewise to turn 

 out in spring following, provide a new piece of 

 ground, large and roomy, for two pens, where no 

 pheasants, &c. have been kept, and there put your 

 young birds in as they begin to shift their tails. Such 

 of them as you intend to turn out at a future time, or 

 in another place, put into one pen netted over, and 

 leave their wings as they are-; and those you wish to 

 keep for breeding put into the other pen, cutting one 

 wing of each bird. The gold and 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. 



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 heart- 

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

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

 sidered 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 



