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gos, that is the most ee bred, that are destroyed smaller and — delicate bird than themselves. 
this malady. 1 do not believe that the most favour- | Pheasants, partridges, bantams, guinea-fowl, are tram- 
circumstances would prevent the complaint, though | pled underfoot - . if inthe least weakly. The 
unfavourable ones would aggravate it, but that it is in- | hen, in her affectionate industry 1 or grubs, ferior in 3 and perhaps in hardihood. 1 think also 
herent in the race and constitution of the birds. They | kicks her lesser nurse urselings right and left, and leaves that there is no instance of any white ies of cocks 
appear at a. certain epoch to be seized with 2 n, them s sprawling on their — as fore they are a an i ich i 
exactly as in some unhappy families; the sons and | month old, half of them will be muddled to death by | ment that dark and gaudy colours are * hues 
daughters are taken off all much at the same age. ** this rough r In spite of these drawbacks, the nally characteristic of the genus.— E. —E. S. Dixon. 
ill in hi is found 
and guinea-fowl, for instance ; and as the white variet 
of these is m ostly smaller and more delicate 
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disease, at to be A show. MR. SWETE’S PIGGERY 
made in cases where I had the i sn iy But the | energetic game-cock, with Dorking hens, produces a following references to the! letters on the 
atal maladies of fowls are difficult to trace chickens in size and beauty mad * to their o is piggery, p published last Saturday, w ere we- 
to their cause, 5 still more difficult to eure by the ap- maternal parentage, and much more robust. Every body | Ar omitt 
medy. It is unnecessary to allude to knows : É A 3 ai ugh. E, plan of the tank, L, wall with oak 
— of any re y : z z their peculiarity in having $ supernume amen’ § | B, close boarding, |F, section of do. 2 on the top, 
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master what — — have received in his ab- equal in size at each end. The chicks are brownish 
gence ; and they often severely, 2 suffer the dis- yellow, with a broad brown stripe down the ae of | apon 
e of some ill-natured underling, who dare not | the back — and a narrower one on each side; feet aud estate ou bt to maintain itself in fertility, by keeping 
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real wrong n expiated by the horse, the dog, the On this | bree d Mr. Alfred Whitaker thus expresses he not 1 tl i i i 
cat, or the poultry, Nay, there is no concealing it, and | his opinion :—“ I agree with you fully as to the useful- 2 y — — — papera ae a in 
mothers pred listen to it, and think of it, as a motive | ness of this description of poultry, but I do not view feeding men than — ; aud how far butcher meat, 
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a harsh word spoken in a moment of irritation has been beauty. Compared with the Pheasant Malays, they are 88 — 
rerenged in shakes and pinches ee — 3 infant. short-necked, and there is no arch or erest > the — e poig ewar — —— I by green — 
Ina communication with which I een favoured | Their colours vary from a streake grey toa mottled or 2g by dung, it can certainly produce much more 
by Dr. Bevan, the able author of “ — Bee,” he | spotted brown and white, A neighbour here has some human food directly, in the vegetable — * than ulti- 
says, Just about roosting time one of the cocks (of a of the finest I ever saw; the cocks with very full double | mately, as butcher meat resulting from its consum ump 
very choice breed), was found apparently lifeless at | combs, and the hens generally with reddish-brown spots by ca ae . 
the back door, lying on its side as though it had been | on a white ground. Tomy eye the cocks look heavy Thus according to Professor Low (ala — p. 632) 
down, aish I really believe it had. I brought | and stupid, neither the head nor the tail being usually one ton af Turnips produces 14lbs. of — £ 
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— Pere, an and became violentiy wae nga The | spirit. As regards size, they are ma nificent, I Saw vet if, i i mt it as hi x 
worthy doctor e a correct diagnosis of the malady, one on my friend’s dinner-table th —ͤ—ͤ— since quite that 2 1 i. ot ment per owt y . f 
and so avoided ti the * of administering a long as large as an ordinary hen turkey ; it was a cockerell Turnips contains 11 Ibs. of solid food, the flesh is onl 
list of nos vain. Some e had a about seven pe = y experience of their laying I. IIth of the solid matter of the i i flesh 
most beautiful Dorking wr the admiration of — — and breeding qu rees mainly with your state- itself is nearly 4 water. Or if die average the proteine 
and of all who saw After time he became ill, meni, except a 1 — d lay still — emphasis com mpounds in Turnips at 2 per dhe anh 2 r 
— worse, and d. thei umsiness Kare “mothers, which Iam in- 25 (which is a litle ag mean), the 2lbs, of the 
nary comfort and care were afforded, but we did not try clined to think is aggravated by their extra toe behind, proteine in 100lbs, of 8 will give — than 4 of 
of the extraordinary recipes that are current. aud the great length of their back toes, They fre- the same, in tak a These averages are 
and-bye the discovery of cruel treatment to my | quently trample to death their chickens during the pro- Johnstone, who is not Alben with them; and others 
V elicited the fact that the stable boy was in the cess of hatching, and in a small coo p they demolish | have pp) e sin ee, still more in favour of the vege- 
of ing the cock “drunk,” a process which is them ata feariul rate. Y think — never pre be | table. 
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effected. by seizing the bird by the legs, and whirling | cooped with their chickens ; but a still safer course | com Nau! ber . titi we may take Mr. Lawes” 
him round and round in the air, till the centrifugal | would be to hatch the eggs unde er a mother of a less — i as pene pe a oll on tho large scale, and 
foree shall have sent the blood to the head, and pro- | rough physique, or perhaps by pay a aaa Nl even less in favour of our argument than Johnstone’s, 
ists i i e only questi is to be i al 
duced apoplexy. The onsists in seeing the bator.” Th tion is, ho is Aceording to Mr. Lawes’ tural Journal, 
d reel when placed upon t ground, | employed when the fit comes on, they are vol. 8, p 255), 5-6thsof the nitrogen proteine, 
gradually recover, as it unsteadily walks o persevering sitters. I have successfully hatch atter, in the food of cattle, goes to the 
hen” is an agreeable variation of the sport. | both turkeys and geese under Dorking hens, The dung; only about 1-6th in fi of the 
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The cook had seen and was indignant ; but the lad's will stand a great deal of taning and 82 about | animal ; and of the earbonaceous or fattening portion, 
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mother, when he entered my service, had, like the | without taking much harm from it. . Whitaker | this a is still greater ; consequently the produce 
of romance, given her son a word of power, | continues, “ I have erossed the Dorkings with Pheasant of — direct] as vegetable f food, will 
To the angry threat of the cook that she would tell of ting 1 — i ich is | feed rnd people as that 0 of six acres 
i — it was replied, “ If you do, I will tell large, tho ough rolifie; but if w the cross to | into at piama mutton, a consideration of of ‘some weight 
y tme it is your Sunday out you go to see the | breed with mae oiher, they dwindle — gate — The BE a country where the soil does not produce enough 
eae Cook w i jar pl [amar trine of breeding is yet ill understood, I am dis- for the p u. 
struck at nt e menti ion of her 6 misfortune,” and was posed to think that, where you — a real variety, But — must have animal food. Certainly; and why 
breeding in is the natural and best mode of procedure; not import that wherein we have the produce of 6 acres. 
Tine emi found that in all cases of sus- but that, when you cross two thorough breeds, you 3 mas 1, re of corn and other v 
death, the surest way of coming at the truth, | have no guarantee that the cross breed will be orate atters now mported ? as live 2 which must 
— future malpractices, is to hold a formal | further than the first result.” 8 and is costly ; bat the —— — and 
est, wit mortem examination; and after a| It is a qu ee how the speckled Dorkings were first lightly so asnot to draw out the juices: 
deliberate investigation to — amp firmly, by rebuke or a oduced. Some maintain on the pure ae rag k- | the e Sg — — in proportion — length of . — 
dismissal, any outrage on the laws of humanity. gs are the original breed with five toes, and that the | allowing it time to mature or become tender 
_ Pure ns are aaee . I had one speckle d Dor orking is a recent and pred cross, by | market, retaining its j 
à p model to the eye, short, square, compact, w l | within the reach of chem 
with e, comb, and — all that could be white — and t he Malay, or some other large stock | of our butcher meat will 
very pullet fancier would have | of poultry. From this opinion I must entirely dissent, | question is, how large 
perpetuate But sg never — on the ground of 2 though not — conclu- But next, how, without cattle dung, is an —— to be 
and in conseq sive evidence to the con It s Nar ry 
bout two years old was —— Columella's favourite sort of hen. perp not differ. much | as is supposed. 
ife soon demons a mâl | from our He says, ( Eze sint wahh mathe to feed the plani 
the back and side bones, and showed that | cundæ vel fuscæ plume, nigrisque pennis. .... v salts and 
the may sometimes be ighl matrices probi coloris, robusti corporis, — reag The inorganic 
all their outward trap- rose, magnis ca bus, rectis rutilisque cristulis. | of light carriage. Am 
suspe ne ey Site issi untur quæ quinos habent | ures, 
wed to run with them | digitos,” Ke. “Let them be of a reddish or not 
ho want e b plumage, and with b —— sico niab — away at the gas works 
t four hens to a cock m * i 
e and a few other robust body, square built, full breasted, with large animal waste, may often be had. The bulky and 
trifling facts seem to show that with the | heads, and bright re mbs . . « hty organic matters 
(a variety of great antiquity) the those are believed to be the bred which | and ploughed 
arrived at te limits. T limits have aay ry Except that t mention ro! soil, : 
us of practical experience. Sir ckles (and he never notices minute markings) th 
ied an experiments — description almost exactly tallies with our bir — — pe mat w me nan fn proporti aa bests 3 
U pan stamampcenncinyy a asi in China, where the 3 sej sery fov 
—— dogs, fowls, and pigeons ; the Gallinarum generositas spectatur eri icundo, digitis | ca — 8 night-soil is the 
Sa — ina: pennis nigris, ore rubic 
me fowls became — —— meine — en fous’ ’ 6 Superiority of breed in hens is denoted Aber ty —— be borne in ‘ind tet between 
and bad br. pe imes double. wings, | a animal tee tabl ferment 
toes.” Lib. x, alkaline (ammoniaca 15 the latter acid, ¢ and theref 
the white require more lime than dung land. But the lime 
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Without the assi are incapable of re aring their young 2 believing — oe — robust | | consequently more congenial and wholesom , in its 
Domenic Ju 4 of Improving the Breeds of d —— ve-toed fowl, white individuals h — ia 
a — e t k re cae ee 15 ro — —— ilinaceous sted | Land e to fertility by the addition of the materials 
be and am fo re Ding a — cau — — turkeys, | withdrawn, but requires more or less time for them to 
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