572 THE 
AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
— 7, 
— r the air was continually supplied with this 
poisonous gas, plants ay exhaust it of all the materials 
3 which they feed and live. 
t the — thing 
te provide us with 
ro 
ral world, is e productive of 
good in the end, by the — iy heal of God’s 
providence 
Thus much, then, we have learned regarding the air 
in connection with ig P ; it provides the plant 
of | B 
with its ce, it keeps up the warmth 
2 Sy animal by burning a portion of its food in 
ungs. 
(To be continued.) 
POULTRY MISCELLANIES. 
peer b co 
mitte 11 in a recent —— 
A courteous and ee demand, like his, deserves 
an aagi 
er. 
Def n was, that no general rule as to the most 
cal food for fowls can be — * shall be 
3 applicable to all eireumstance localities of 
cheap article of 
„such as 
Co rk, offer 
Then, farmers have 
‘So, it is 
a 
a fare r from the other 
50 re a master’s se il i i 
n China fowls, too, — — will consume 
different amounts of food from bantam strike 
us co 
of a precise result, mly way in 
oben a * ne of the exact quantity of food 
eaten by a given number of fowls, is up that 
given number, of the same breed and 
But th 
and so rro 
would prove of considerable importance, if the 
tions founded t 
ee 
tio 
satisfactory z results. 
d 
have 8 thought at batten to give “no account of 
4 ex- |s 
the average quantity of grain each bird might be 
a than to attempt is such an 
my conscience must mislead, if it 
und-work of any caleulation intended to 
be 8 spplieable. The best most usual 
modes of fatting v: = p such as pea-fowl, 
turkeys, gp fowl, * bss h 8 „it is 
hoped, peras Telnes; ; but posed. that 
every one will an ust depart a little, to the right or 
according as 
eans may be most 
= ie let from siey rinted instructi 
N y pa ons, 
o R 
m Bisava. the wishes 
of “ Tau,” as well as 
use-like 
to suit the 
not mere money profit. 
that at the end of Seju 1 
should still go on 
t 
ter, | menagerie of p 
have 
signing g 
Sia few 
ing. | still if every h 
; and to 
— gives, in trath, | 
onl 
is given at Poot gc Page 
amateur. 
may be premised that my own object in keeping 
If it “Poe clearly | 
convenience and — nent’s 3 sake ; and so would many 
seme was se ladies and gentlemen, — clergy. If a 
be — to me that the 
ling, just as one would prefer a joint m 
pork, although meat, spelled with the same four letters, 
city one- 
sar e os naan with me has been not to attempt 
he formation m anything like a complete ee or 
oultry—though we h 
ss 
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them, or shrew 
— inconvenient super- 
ot and 2 — with less familiar faces. 
e suited to the income, the est 
ment, * the — too, of most natu ralist 3 
— to 
as mu h 
ima 
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<i 
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A. 
Lars i 
be done by ev 5 ody. tempt the per- 
formance of a ag a Sig aed pse than a little 
above one’s powe 
ducks, various owls, „a gums 
Heir several young, b 3 ginen “fowl » guans, 
| stork, a brood or two of pheasants and partridges, and a 
few pair of cage rap altogether pein 150 head. At 
seven in the m 
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a 
É 
acre), that slopes slightly to t 
good size peet. 
sufficient for pa gradually dim 
about hal 
= 
r the palings; 
additional ka 
ated by t 
e shut fatten 
About 2 this quantity of Barley 
and again at sunset in the court- 
they are driven up 2 — the * at — 
way. 
2 
8 O' eloc 
coops w mall in m the 
— ‘that oe 2 are hatched, ‘ald they aro qien aqu uarter 
this infantile set 
od — 
As 
re judged suficiently robust to — to the 
water, of ai ar an acre of w 
besides o drains cage een 
with their nurse, but 
costin 
nothing but the few — of 5 — ai throwa te 
them three or four times a day, p them 
habit of 
it is bert ee to make any — — of what thine 
irds sume, or are ae 
nnot 
sects, worm 
y» 
aad, sar into any 
s, seeds, water- 
ducks grow, get flesh, and even fat, 
although they are “a the i Shoe of afer premise: 
minimis r T 2 not for 
crumbs and a 
exact profit an 
rpetually vary. Thus, 
ished | their respective 
to ea on a — 1 
tablish- no more 
not | adult birds oe times a da 
s| appear to me t 
too 
— = now (Jaly : 2 our ere ene of turkeys, 
pat eds o „ with | growth, or 
* 
pou 
pgs ducklings are kept — arag d in 8 
with s n front, fro 
the ms 
Note 
ean afford peo 
Most 
k = 
them at either period cannot but mislead. And m. 
greater number of ducks do not live six months, theip 
> n — 8 cannot be taken. 
way, turkey- chicks, common 
c us assiduously fed on their proper 
‘ae — — — ai dependen t on the 
n 
remain 
thought į needfal, That point — 
es, with a 
Wheat. ost economical way of distributing 
grain is to Provost it on the bare ground, an d to give 
at a time than the fowls will quite 
and we fin 
till * ms "h aes and to 
short in chi 
than two — rs a 
at extreme precision in stating the 
weights ~~ menue * = articles used as food for 
live stock — or er 
creatures that ave © either 8 work hard, or to 
to get fat, a little too m is be 
ittle. We oud 
2 
Lz 
ave he — (and they should not be a = 
ise), re more corn their 
health es fall leri powers, than what they they will bare 
when the es Er ge d b 
ni 
a wee vate apart- 
ment the pigeo N — whieh, however, bey are not at 
e feda ri prevent 
urs’ fields, 
piara stock of peny must 
re the men are mall of a certain eq 
ot c 
hem Areal 
handful, and stopping t 12 distribution 
tite begins to hey should not 
is a matter 
h and 
<5 mepa purve: 
e ea 
| could ateg 
ir tastes. 
peculiarity of the fowls ona by the 
