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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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of ashes would be left by 5 tons = cheese if they were 
burned? a very 
an ounce, all the rest 
and it has all gone p es the air from which it came. 
continued.) 
Naeger se MISCELLANIES. 
Fon b sake e numbers will be 
attached to a few miscellaneous facts and speculation ns 
on the — of domesticated birds, which may from 
time to time be given in these columns 
. R. P? inquires “if there is an 
which one can ascertain out of a brood of cygnets which 
am te males and which the fe males.” In re 
t re as. the nex on; 5 the 
— he 3 and females, especially if the point 
that the males have the thickest neck coincides with this 
But the individuals of a br 
certaining the sex of living birds 
as a great secret by some traders is 
a 
Ang: pages sa 
hat is all the farm loses certain! 
th 
h 
r- | constituti 
mated in Great Britain, pem the newly hatched ducklings 
. The term acclimation is, according 
ion of organise 
were not very chargeable [e 
expensive ? or a 11 
re „oË them would [ 
be kept than 
if yo 
them but meat enough ep. will lay many eggs, and in 
a short time hatch a great wes ate Their flesh 
oie 
e climation ” of a organic being to mean no more 
| natural 
soins would be 
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orians. After a few generations 
romise is supposed to take amends rong ween 
the —— ungenial elimate on the 
tn e tender greenhouse 3 on the — Things 
hake together, and the foreigners acclimated, 
Now, » we hesitate to ) accept this s popular theory, believing 
it to 
d, and | sin 
is neither 0 
Duc can dine, without 
r anied. 
et n observable in musk d 
We take the fact of the “ac- 
than 
to unsucces! 2 practice. 
that it is now bearing just such a measure 
by successions of men 
just as much — by their 8 in Cal- 
ne * eels are e Sa 
skinning; or the ei i e 
the pest for the present, but it had 
to the p 
servant eye, par ah i experienced swan-herd 
can be called fato Consultation. In looking over a full- 
Ca. 
re be suf, cient for an Be 
Maize and vane Vine in 
n pronounce which are yo 
yar h access to a dust heap, &e. They 
are at present but slightly affected, and _therefore their 
ung bin the „ DO or Rice 
ush or 
Y» which we are sorry not to be able to suggest ; 
ina pao poultry keeper will recognise in 
toms deseribed one of his greatest ‘plagues and pete 
often proceeds to a 
try 
e symp- 
arn the y of waging war against | 
— 
The disease 
its early stages at least is curable. 
they were just not ign. they pgp 
me na 
to the co 
| 8 the t tilap e 0 an 
the Guiny D ag th 0 
pee paf — Cairo Duck, for 
arks gree, as 
e 
skin — * Bill, and upon the B 
3 * a i 
These varieties, 8 were not probably self- 
in the old world, but 
— other adv 
of 
vaga 
from this ‘tie + were set under 
fan ` 
the climate of Britain with comfort, . bene 
themselves, for great part of the year, but aE young- 
ose creatures require e our climate and 
consist of Bar 
Wheat instea the green 
food oy. choose in the shape of dived Cabbage leaves 
n tops; Rice also boiled not too much, and 
per over with er as or fine pollard, is good. 
As soon as the birds are ected to re eo 
ment, a dose of i * P ‘calomel and colocynth Pill, 
— ; but the 
hich we have found producti 
benefit to sick fo owls, is the pla 
that W. 
bee 
with | ph 
mstances acclimated 
Are 1 like that Basio on farm-yard 
e: 8 t do for little 1 They must 
pt very warm snug. Their nurse, 
whether duck or hen, 3 be coo = in a sheltered, 
ere 
them tod able; for, remember, that in Brazil their first 
bath would probably Kop f a temperature that wo 
They 
nr Me ook, The t be n oud to te empt whi 
easants, Forget that they are 
them as the oy pas tender 
ceeding thus of our acquaintance annu 
rears with — — ew lately killed some 
again 
the protean malady of fowls ; ba afte after 
all, we — still find ourselves a utterly:t to baf 
the i an unf; le s 
epart this 
they eat, and sometimes —— got ( (dy. tak 
oF oan get) nothing at at all. His Mrs. Duck 
to enje . honours of maternity at an 
and ther he will be thankful to 
information ap soon ap possibl e. 
The first hint which mags ip be given is, that musk 
in early perio: 
fitted musk drakes. it is true, which 
te! country, 
. 
and 
ceive a little An 
e 
ms of South | a 
ae ST called las 
when dressed ready for the 2 weighed 8 lbs. each. 
We may now guess why so re 
reared in France, the 
though it is not the fashion of the present day 
em. Willughby teils us (p. 381 
Guiny- Duck: Anais Lib 
ro- 
within these few 
Correspondence. 
he Risks of High’ Ab ca —i have 
my own — so 
a revolution in ane culture of land, and such pro- 
truth, ven to an inexperienced ey eae 
cent $ * — is not — 
is with 
Moscovie, a la —; one seer not to 
title prematurely. Willughby adds, “If it 
America, e ep what is 
e home. 
| expectancies 
u to follow 
was as clear as that 2 and 2 make 4, that by right 
draining, subsoiling, and scientifie knowledge of manure, 
