BREEDING PHEASANTS. 



every day, and put into wheat, small ends downwards, 

 till you have got a sufficient quantity for a clutch or set- 

 ting, which may he from seventeen to nineteen. If you 

 want to send them any distance, they must he packed in 

 wool. The silk hens are the hest for incubation, the 

 heat of the common hens heing apt to shell-bake the 

 birds in the eggs. When it so happens, put them into 

 water rather more than lukewarm, which will relieve 

 them ; you will know when it takes place by the eggs 

 moving. When hatched, their first feed should be the 

 eggs of ants, fresh curds, and bread, with a small portion 

 of chickweed, groundsel, or lettuce, cut fine : all these 

 mixed carefully. It will be some days before they will 

 eat grain ; till then give them but very little water. Be 

 sure to cover the train of your frame before the dew 

 falls, and not to uncover it till it is quite off in the morn- 

 ing ; such humidity being very hurtful. Remove your 

 frame every other morning, first sweeping the dew off 

 the grass where you intend to set it : here should be 

 plenty of Dutch clover. Feed often, always beginning 

 at daybreak. When they will eat grain freely, the other 

 food may be gradually left off. After a month, you may 

 let them have constant water, and plenty of cabbages. 

 If the weather proves cold, give them white peas, or 

 small tick beans, w Let them always have plenty of sand 

 laid in small heaps ; this will rid them of vermin, and 

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on the end of the tongue : this being removed, apply garlic 

 and tar mixed to the wound. Next follow the snickups, 



