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In breeding pheasants to turn out, the 



Kow to breed, 



S^I'is'Slors of P^<^P^^' proportion is five hens to one cock ; 



^onngPhea- ^^^^ morc, if you expect the hens to lay well. 

 Provided you take the eggs av/ay as they 

 are laid, leaving only one or two in the 

 nest, each heuTpheasant, generally speak- 

 ing, will lay twenty-five eggs. Common 

 pease and small beans are excellent food to 

 make them lay, giving them novv^ and then 

 a handful of hemp-seed; and, if they are 

 not in an extensive place, in a menagerie, 

 with a grass yard to it, you must also give 

 them some sort of greens. When the young- 

 pheasants are hatched, the best food for 

 them is certainly the eggs of the large horse* 

 ant; but these are not easily to be ob- 

 tained ; for these large ants scarcely ever 

 breed but in very extensive woods. I will 

 inform you of a substitute, (known but to 

 very few) which is much better food and 

 more nourishing than ants' eggs : take dead 



they might, for twelve shillings, have known how to 

 catch EVEUY RAT ill tJiC Tiavy. If this could be brought 

 to bear in the Briti.^h Senate, at the cost o\' only twelve 

 shillings, what reward might I not look for! ! 



