THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



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the dom« ti be guilty of some 



f to explain this, r ject by a few of the 



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tive Anatomy "in the '. i> r artie! . I ought ; r laps to ha< 

 John Hunter, — « that the bones of birds form pare 



ever found a .most efficacious r. im :y f >v all n 

 emetic, and I think also salt in liquid with birds. 



j now taken for granted would 

 j clearly explained. 



t o i, ..:■ :, daily resort to clean dry dust o 



n ..ft.-n .. l -c-v..,u-.,l a abo.ii 



lew may be more easily prevented by con- 

 r M a drink has been strongly 



I authority, that of the 

 f-the Judge of all the 

 ords extremely applicat 



ng Mr. Grey per- 



I wUl not attempt 

 of the subject, but I wii 



rights. "Therefore 



; up very Bmall, which should 



tlways ragged and never were in good feather, 

 le attributed to difference of situation. But 

 dsiting his poultry yard, which was' very 

 trranged, I happened to observe a pot of hot grease put 

 •ut to cool, and the fowls very leisurely helping them- 

 elves, a mode of fattening of whichhe highly approved, 

 le was astonished when I pointed out to him that either 



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I hope not only to be 



1 

 name, not peril*] 



t the bill ought not t< 



Tiiper, and a neeuliar 

 noise denominated Clucking, when the hen must be 





layers — it does not occur at all. I have known* th' S 



desire of ii -o aggravated and 



and hi. fjrdinab -ed with fevers, in 



be at a deference to popular noti 



( die upon the nests, if not agisted or removed to feed. 



During the process^Fln^ubationnh^r^^^ 

 great deal of care, and when observe!! u?ZZT* " 

 nests for two or three days successively, each heTft 

 distance, where she may take her food ,1, 1 l. 8 ? MS, * 

 terruptedly-. ^ The practice of placing?^ toc^J 

 me'ntauTrfie 1 b En liable' to diSteneffi'? ^ 

 eggs, which becoming wet are very soon chillJSrT 

 embryo being thus deprived of vitality "- *""«»— ti* 



Setting hens are sometimes known 'to eat one n, ^ 

 of the eggs in their nests, for wliich thev aretooX 



, generally a wise provision ofN 

 e ? g9 ;, Besides, ever * one%w wi^s^ij'S^ 

 of all fowls to gobble up an egg accidentally dro«2 

 and broken in the yard. The accident of an eL £E 

 in the nest I have generally found to occur wheaiC 

 have been disturbed by others. That their taste tm 



effecTof i'vi?^" Til SPeak WUh ° ertai " t J n P«*» 



Professor Gregory, of Aberdeen, some years ago „, 

 commended "the mixing of egg-shells with the food 4 

 towls, for the purpose of mci-easing t!,- ,,„,../., 

 matter (phosphate of lim ) used in th. . .1 ,„• n , \. 

 to increase the quantity, of eggs." Chemical anLlnti 

 shows that vegetables contain a large proportion rf 

 silex phosphate of dime, and other earthy mnKen, 

 which I should therefore prefer for this purpose, with 

 old mortar, slaked lime, gravel, and sand. 



If it should be desirable to prevent incubation » 

 water, or pumping on her, is dangerous, cruel, and un- 

 necessary, when the more simple plan of cooping in 1 



A small pinch of purified nitre, in powder, about u 

 much as will cover a fourpenny piece, rolled in t 

 pellet of slightly moistened Barley meal, is au excellent 

 febrifuge, which may be used in this case with effect, ind 

 indeed in all cases of fever. But this remedy must W 



duced — a chill of the blood or a sort of ague. 



Whether fever really accompany the ; r <c - <>t he. 



THE TURN- WREST PLOUGH. 



husbandry does the successful growth of corn most 

 depend 1" I should unhesitatingly reply, as lid the 



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greatly to the prejudice of this most essential part of 

 good farming. In my agricultural survejs of different 

 districts of England, my attention is constantly being 

 attracted by the very wide difference in the ploogbintt 

 the pains taken to make what in t» 

 south of England is very expressively called "a se **? a ; 



rfv marked bi 

 ng of the poorer parts of Kent w 

 Sussex. In the latter districts the unkindness and 



;round, that places the farmers, as practical tillers, ,a 



ction of this plough to any others, are always prejj- 

 . 11»> it- h. .-.v cumbersome appearance but my a 

 srience of the better tilth and finer seed-bed n» 



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n ; which I ■* 



pinion, done an immensity ^ 



:ig under more g< 



plough, that I would .nake ** 



observations on deep and 'pulverising /ough^ 



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I.K-.-th, j 



ploughing. A Kentish ploughman s surprise ^ ^ 

 ith that of my friends w u # 



ii 1 t it w '- my own ploughmen, s ucn^ ^ ^ rf 



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favourable moisture of climate, through ^f Jjbg* 

 England, that, notwithstanding their sn ^ ^ 

 they can grow as large crops oi . 

 vated districts produce from twice .? e ff or k of **° ' 



