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subject to many inconveniences. Pigeon’s dung is 
Very valuable.—See Manuring. They sometimes re¬ 
quire to be fed, particularly in the benting time; I 
have known ten dozen of young pigeons taken in a 
very short time from a moderate sized dove house. 
Pigeons will sometimes forsake their habitations for 
want of attention in being fed and kept clean; in which 
case, you may boil assafoetida in water, and wash their 
holes with it, and their feathers will receive the scent, 
which pleases their companions so much, that you will 
soon have the flock restored. 
Cummin seed is reckoned a great enticer of pigeons, 
by washing their holes in its decoction, or feeding them 
with grain steeped in such water; perhaps used both 
ways, it may the better produce the desired effect; 
I have also found they are very fond of salt, a lump 
laid in a plate on the dove house floor is very salutary 
to them, or in a large dove house, the salt may be so 
put in two or three separate places. 
SECT. VII.— POULTRY. 
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Poultry are an article of secondary consideration, 
but are domesticated and bred here as in other coun¬ 
tries, of the various kinds, turkies, geese, fowls, ducks, 
and the variety termed gallinae, from the name of the 
order to which it belongs, and for want of some other 
generic name, but called also guinea fowl, and kept for 
variety by curious persons: they are seldom reckoned 
upon as a staple article, but are kept for family use, 
and perquisites or pin money, to the female part of 
the family. 
1. TURKIES. 
