19—1850. | 
THE . AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. & 
e Magazine, by Mr, Shaw; the Journal of the | thing might perhaps be done to illustrate a tribe of use: The cause of this difference in the wet-repelline 
the Journal of the thing might perhaps be done to — a tribe of use- The cause of this differen 
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ce in the wet. re 
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Magazine Mr. S 
— ae oe oct — eiety S Ulster, by Dr. Hodges; | ful and engaging creatures iù wh o large a portion powers of the feathers of different birds remains 
Journal and Transactions of the Lower Canada Agri- | of society is more or less inte í be discovered. The old idea of the function of N il 
Society, by ns, and the first number o The author, —.— ever, des 5 — irs of a correct elassifiea - gland on the rum — needs no fur refutation. The 
the Agricultor Espanol, published at Madrid :—for all tion by arran angi ng the ar À Ys es races in | quantity of oil seereted is quite insufficient to smear the 
which the us anks of the Council we e er and sequence, fro e deficiency in our whole pling 9 of any bird. The actions of the crea- 
The cil then adjourned (over the day of lecture | present unt of orni rnithological l knowledge ough ture, which are presumed to be the smearing itself with 
on the 15th, and the day of general meeting on the * a thin =p beng Indian | this unguent, are nothing more than of 
22d) to their weekly meeting on the 29th inst. Archipelago, the native man ar firiest combing and pruning and ing its 
———— = breeds, shall have been m 1 “explored. Mr. | rumpless fowl has a coat just as glossy as any other 
Reviews, Dixon enters boldly into pita Re e theorists | variety. The n some birds, as owls, are t 
ie re and Domestic Pe 7 the Rey. who (maintain that the variety of fo Aeh by the | short to reach the gland that is to supply tt the natural 
und Saul Dixon, M.A., Recto Intwood-with- designation of pheasant bird is a hybrid between the | macas In r birds, tie and even 
Keswick, Norfo Ik. Published a the Offi he: and the barn-door fowl. ave notion) he oceanic habits, the rump syi is but little developed. 
Cirian ag aii 5, Upper Wellington. Dine seems to have sucessful ec beiti, and considers the e What function is perf by these 
ent- garden, Lo spe ae, as distinct, of easte —— that yet to be demonstrated; probably it will be found to be 
Tue Tall pne and ‘agreeable book „E pub- 2 the mutable law * f Natareys a hybrid bird, between | simply excretory: The n of might 
hed under this title deserves an especial notice from | the p ee n fow. be barren. e | very soon be.set at rest by amputating the rump of a 
ur inah a peng Portion of the matter contained i in wagen in toto the — of — 7 5 — facts, or common duck or goose, were such Sealy all justi- 
s been adduced in at the end of a month, the 
it PE 
— to” to eos À 5 ur readers. The simple fact e! 
a large impress t 
sterling worth of the 3 to 
which opr 4 have served the office of “a nursing 
mother 
boo 
The origin of the work, as stated by Mr. BRN in 
mos 
the:first edition, is as follows, The 
ne 
0 | 
0 fowl, 
¥ although totally ignorant of their ways and doings,” 
to take notes himself of the questions h gave 
b His friends induced 
who at once su eir publi: 
them so favourstly, that * suthor 
us contributions on a — 
has been deemed so trivial, “that an 
something sensa- 
Mo rere i —— only ventured to meet by 
1 criticism under the shelter of an u assumed ti 
cond edition just come fo 
— 
n 
the mother 88 Each kind of poul 
Pages in , as erue 
the ' title intimates, ib specially considered, not, however, 
t 
but with the inquiring mind and critieal 8 of an 
ornithologist familiar with the natural history o 
creatures before him, and with the. taste and skill of thie 
en 
species es of als a 
support of the trary opinion; and adds that if t ted ture swam as buoyantly as ever, it would 
breed Aina e fertile, it ‘would produce a very de- nia ot be by the assistance of the oil-gland. 
fective bir ch as no poultry fancier ure, therefore, to gest and claim the credit- of 
poultry butcher would wish to look at. He is able and first suggesting, t+ this cause may probably 
eloquent on the subject in more than one part of the | found in some ut tural “peculiarity of the 
k, and states as the t of his investigations that | texture of the feather, which the microscope can alone 
hybrids between pheasant and the fowl are for the | reveal to us; In geol at instrument has afforded 
t part absolutely pagal oe when 80 7 do breed great and unexpec' A thin slice of a. 
r 
it is not with each other, 
df 
fail or assimil 
half-bred aml i is ‘perpetua 
human 
z 
eg 
Having, vay something of the fearless set o of the 
game bird, crowed his ee or pua this po 
author ý a natura 
l- 1 and habits of the — “owl, ‘whieh | fight, not like 
f 
mt en not give way to 
BE 
a very spirited and Tr — The | has 
dese defends the game cock fro f bein 
‘sanguinary tyrant, disposed to o provoke the attacks of 
* thinks that the t game 
0 
uated ; no new breed W884 
ea 
an minute en 
ooth has indicated the nature = an extinct and 
giganti reptile. Youatt, through its 
cal cause of the fi 
ch 
Calendar of Operations. 
MAY. 
—— — 6.— The weather for some time © past 
; but on the other 
hand, i highly favourable arious operations of the fiel 
2 preparing e green crop fallows. We finished 
— see Wurzel on the last day of A bl sowed 2 
na week, Five 
22 — 
cold aad on 
chi cken hich are generally s upposed t to indicate their 
piignacity “of disposition, are merely the results of high 
animal spirits, harmless . ang of 
Serv: 
pee. never will see 
ters e 
die. 
been fought be worse caig than a hare = 
had been hunted? And as to the mode of death; 
a cock which he would choose—to be hun 
leg aad have the cook run 
that that be bleed nas and = a lowly (in order 
and whiter), or 
existence hort by one sharp m r- 
eifat thrist, instead of aH Trigeris faintness of a onl. 
the sur- 
mt 
* * “i it can swim, 
come Here 
| performs that action in pos a clumsy way as hardly to 
or | deserve" oe 
the name of swim ming. Whio expect 
| ai of vial 
ersary and fight for 
d praised oe of 
I am safe i ‘ear hh 
very operation of 
rse labour, stands ha 
pe y previous one. The Rye is no 
with a mixture of hay and straw chaff. The cattle 
out to the ine fields through day, but are sheltered and 
a 
ts of earth 
mence ve aie 
time. pons co 
M si report 
weather has not been 30 favourable as we had to 
dry weather to yoy caig and wet, and on several oc we: 
had sharp frosts, but they did not do te harm be eg 
checking th irets ‘of 2 which ow rather bac 
ward, and the ther still we “The 
apart, a ches, 
stock oft banati we 2 plenty of dung, and w 
at the rate of from 30 z 40 yards per acre. . 
tinuous ‘line, ir resem 
4 according 3 We folded 
— ionships without any reference to the circum- 1 er mn m elegant companion asd "the more attrac- haz, but on the young Clovers and rg a 
stance of their domestica eir untameability. of our aquatic preserves,” will be disap- theni on part ot Oe: p susie Bagr sa $ . 2 
The former plan can be carried out by a little theory Hointed s for it will never go near the water, if it can Grass on both parts is a fair crop, but tha Tee 
d bold guess work ; the latter requires. industry, | help it, bus wilt prefer the farm-yard, . ipeta of | werk Site eet ao wants n an 
c urate 0 pas opportunities which few in- kitchen, or even the piggéry itself, to learest the dung has the ; stimulus, and circumstances like 
dividuals, if any. at present at command. In the m that ever flowed. In fact, it hates water, ex- these ought to teach us (if anything will ever do so), how 
meanwhile we may attempt something like an artificial | cept some to drink and dabble in. When valuable liquid manure is applied on Grass. I do not think 
arrangement of fowls, which may afford a temporary | thrown into a pond, it gets out again as fast as it panies denied any ir r Ne 
tance to the fancier till a more scientific scheme is It does, i A seem to enjoy an on the surface, if the weather is very drying a great de 
worked out, and which may perhaps be the means of | bath, but so does a sparrow y Its very | must be wased: „Waen; re paght 
1 di g to it j t as, to compare small th 25 with short leg A not to mix or some time Wi once or — m of earth, 
great, the arti! — in botany has | for the p of swimming. It 8 on the sur- | chist fertilise contained pap gr ä 
cleared the way and been to the great pecs yey pice as . 2555 N 3 it is for the present and part of next wes —_ im, the Mangold, 
system is now in vogue. evi age Sa of its place in ei situa ts proper , them the : e .. 
Two desiderata are still Se for the e of mode of locomotion air; its congeni 11 arp for it as ee coming ~ “An * 
objest, one or other of them is indispensable; fhe — the 1 of the trees. of i. G. 8. 
irst, a ween ein aH of full-sized còloured fi A pair that were given to me by a friend came lame Saree Pana May. 1, 8 fortnight o of our 
every v both the the e td fe very d at the end of three or four days | lambing season TES 5 5 me 
„ accurate Rain Ssh ane rip- | they still had not washed themselves from — hes eit coset ie beginning, a 
es is their mae an mof ied specie proper- of th 
the second, à collection of stuffed Specimens of the | in 
the, 
breed fi 
à Tlie "Ar ean ody “be aiiai. br, & 
Person of fortune ; the can scarcely be = 
from our museum or history societies, devoted pat eee t 
FP 4 do not he wet so well as her water of 
interest, be fi that ‘poultry will be. con- birds; but the quill arg a LI By SEE fo — 3 wil Te costes d. ale sae marked. 
; oie soaked rated, tail 
S kasik the dignity of the Royal yia Beera the tail, b those of 3 or turkey poe a el moist weather as most r r 
ty, but such a such a museum, would be | minute p lihe 5 having found i that t during a cold and 
ne dis 88 taste; and if the ladies of the to make any ong voyage, at a çeftain distance | have a considerable number of 
members. Vers tọ exert their influence, some- they would sink an. be suffocated, 
woul 
| few or none, Our — po 
bars 
ver fold our sheep on fallow land wit 
pastures, 
