Live Stuck. 



Wounds. -Under this heading may be classed the injuries to the comb or 

 wattles by lighting, especially as commonly occurs with wire netting between the 

 combatants. "Wounds should be gently clea ned with cold water and dried with cotton 

 wool and a greasy or oily dressing used. Benzoated lard is excellent for all kinds 

 of wounds on poultry. Zinc ointment or Boric acid ointment may be used if 

 desired. It is a great mistake to apply drying lotions which cause the wounded 

 tissues to become hard and leathery and prevent healing. 



Wounds of the Eye may be gently cleaned daily with warm water in 

 which a little Boracic acid is dissolved (about as much as will lay on a ten 

 cent piece to a wiueglassful of water) and the following lotion used after it:— 

 Tinct. Belladonna 10 or 15 drops. 

 Goulard's extract of lead 10 or 15 drops. 

 Water 1 ounce. 

 Mixed. 



If necessary tie the legs to prevent scratching the eye. A little benzoated 

 lard may be used outside round the eyelids. 



Wounds of the Feet must be Avell cleaned, and any thorns or bits of 

 glass removed. Benzoated lard can be applied and the wound bound up with 

 soft rag. The dressing should be done daily. Any matter, or a kind of waxy 

 material which commonly forms, should be removed daily before the dressings 

 are applied. 



(To be co u til t tied. ) 



THE GUINEA FOWL. 



The Guinea Fowl is more generally kept for ornament than as a utility fowl, 

 and its merits for the latter purpose arc apt to be lost sight of. It is, however, one 

 of the most active foragers of all birds that can be kept on a farm, and the cost 

 of keeping it, compared witli other kinds of poultry, is small. The gross profits 

 which it yields may not be as large as those from fowls, ducks, or turkeys, but the 

 net profits are not unsatisfactory, as it is largely self-supporting. 



It is particularly hardy, and generally sleeps in the trees about a farmyard 

 rather than in a house. In this way it is free from restraint, and is able to spend 

 the early hours of the morning in foraging for food. There is no better gleaner 

 than the guinea fowl, and it will wander as much as a mile from home, but as it 

 is chiefly insectivorous it does scar cely any damage to crops, and the benefits which 

 it confers by ridding the fields of insect pests undoubtedly outweigh any slight 

 injury caused in this way. It is Avell able to take care of itself, and there is little 

 danger of its being killed by a fox, while its homing instinct is well developed, 

 and it may be relied upon to come home to roost at night. The guinea fowl, there- 

 fore, requires little of the care and. special management that must necessarily be 

 given to other domestic poultry, as, if given free range, Lt x will during the summer 

 hud almost all the food it requires 



Leo Laying.— Guinea fowls do not lay in the winter, but during spring, 

 iammai'i and autumn they lay a number of eggs. Starting, as a general rule, in 

 Aprils they lay without intermission daily for perhaps a month, and if the eggs 

 are removed from the nest as they are laid the hens will continue for perhaps 

 three months without becoming broody. If they remain in the nest and want to 

 sit, it is only necessary to take away the nest-eggs and break up the neat, and 

 within a week the hen will start to lay again in another place. Even the tamest 

 birds seem to dislike laying indoors, and it is almost impossible to induce them to la y 



