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diet, they must give way. Continue the custard up to eight 

 weeks old, but adding more meal to it, with the green food. 

 Give one sort of food at a time (just so much that they eat 

 it clean up), and attendance every hour from the time you 

 commence to feed until shut up for the night. Change the 

 water repeatedly during the day." 



"With regard to the coops employed for the hens with 

 young pheasants, a form much recommended is one made 

 like a box, 3ft. long, 2ft. wide, and 2ft. high in front, sloping- 

 ofE to 1ft. high at the back, and having a movable boarded 

 floor that may be employed if the ground be wet. The birds- 

 ought to have a further space of about two yards square to 

 run in, fenced in by sparrow-proof wire netting. A good 

 coop of this kind is shown in the cut. The inclosed run. 



which is proof against rats and sparrows, &c., affords a 

 sufficient space for the exercise of the young birds a day or 

 two after hatching, after which the coops should be placed 

 without the wire runs in the spot where the young birds are 

 to be reared, the grass, if high, having been mown around 

 some short time previously, so that the young shoots and 

 tender clover may be growing for the use of the birds. Mr.. 

 Reynolds, of Old Oompton-street, has some admirable coops 

 of a similar kind. The advantages of these arrangements 

 have been very ably set forth by Mr. T. C. Cade, of Spondon, 

 Derby. He writes : " There is a great saving of food, as 

 small birds are excluded by the wire netting ; and it is also 

 practicable to put down a good supply of food at night, so 

 that the young pheasants may be able to feed as soon as they 



