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fresh-water sand daily, and less corn given. Some turnips, swedes, or mangolds should be also laid 

 in, and a portion given daily minced up into smaH cubes ; this will effectually supply the place of 

 fresh vegetable food, and by attending to these simple precautions, and only feeding to the extent 

 of eager appetite, the fowls may in most cases be sent long vo)-ages and maintained in good 

 condition. Barley or oats arc unfit for the food of sea-going birds, and should be discarded. 



Before putting the birds in the coop, this should be thoroughly sprinkled with dilute carbolic 

 acid, which may be repeated (on any fine day) if insects appear, some one holding the fowls while 

 this is done. If the coop has to pass the tropics, some kind of light framework should support an 

 awning a little way up from the top, and the deck round the coop be pretty freely watered during 

 great heats, to save the birds as far as possible. These things cannot always be done on ship- 

 board ; but often an arrangement can be made with some one to look specially after the fowls ; and 

 it is well wortli a reasonable sum to ensure that such few and simple essentials for their safe delivery 

 are punctually attended to, 



