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green food and lime, sometimes attack each other's 

 feathers under the influence of a morbid appetite, 

 and effectually destroy the plumage till next 

 moult. The remedies I have found best, are a re- 

 formation in the economy of their diet, removal 

 of the pecked bird to private lodgings, and the 

 wounded parts rubbed over with sulphur ointment. 



Diarrhoea is caused by the too abundant use of 

 relaying food : boiled rice, with a little chalk and 

 cayenne pepper mixed, will check the complaint. 



To aU my fowls and chickens I give, from 

 time to time, jalap in their food, in the pro- 

 portion of a teaspoonful to 20 birds. It sets 

 them up wonderfully, and keeps them in health. 

 I also give a restorative, recommended by Mr 

 Douglas. He is a weU-known and successful 

 breeder, and I consider his advice very valuable in- 

 deed. He has kindly allowed me to publish it : 



" Bitter Ri'MEDT. 



" Half a pound of sulphate of iron, one ounce of diluted 

 sulphuric acid, dissolved together; add two gallons of 

 water, allowed to stand fourteen days. 



" Dose for chickens : — One teaspoonful to a pint of 

 water, twice or thrice a-week. Good also for old birds 

 in moult." 



