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It must be rcniunibered that in the course of a 

 summer's day Pigeons drink a large quantit\' of water, 

 and that if it is made too salty very serious injury is 

 likely to accrue, even if death does not follow. I have 

 known more than one fancier who has suffered from 

 giving his birds a solution of Epsom Salts of too con- 

 centrated a character. If, when the breeding pens 

 are broken up, the birds are .given Epsom Salts each 

 day for a week, in the proportion of half an ounce of 

 salts to each gallon of water, it will cleanse their 

 systems of all morbid humours, and render their Mood 

 clean and cool ready for the moult. I need not say 

 more here as to the moult and the treatment of birds 

 therein. 



