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phobia, &c.; and even on flesh, raw or cooked, in a very 
advanced state of putrefaction, without any alteration in their 
health. 
2. Chickens are reared with difficulty, if their food be 
restricted to flesh, raw or cooked, even when sound ; and a 
larger number of them perish than when fed on ordinary 
kinds of food. 
3. The eggs of fowls thus nourished are as palatable as 
the eggs of fowds nourished in the common way. The shell, 
however, is thinner, and more easily broken. 
4. The flesh of fowls and pigs nourished on flesh, raw or 
cooked, is softer, more difficult to preserve, and the fat is 
yellow and more diffluent. 
5. The doctor has still doubts as to the absolute whole- 
someness of fowls and pigs fed on animals dying of glanders, 
&c., and recommends that the use of the flesh of such 
animals should be prohibited for the rearing of fowls and 
pigs- 
6. The use of flesh in a state of putrefaction, for similar 
purposes, should be absolutely prohibited as unwholesome. 
7. Fowls should not be fed too long or too abundantly on 
w’orms, caterpillars, beetles, &c., as such food communicates 
a strong taste to the flesh. 
8. The continued use of flesh, otherwise healthy, and 
either raw or cooked, ultimately injures the growth of the 
fowls, and the quality of their flesh. 
9* The best method of rearing undoubtedly is, to give 
flesh but once a day, and to finish w ? ith a meal of grain. 
10. For market use, the use of flesh should be stopped, 
and the fowls restricted for some time to the use of a vege¬ 
table diet. 
POISONOUS CATTLE EOOD. 
“ A few weeks ago, Mr. Singlehurst, of Firbeck, near Tick- 
hill, purchased of the representatives of a late extensive dealer 
in agricultural cakes, manures, and seeds, a quantity of lin¬ 
seed cakes, together with a few bushels of accumulated 
siveepings of the w arehouse floors, under the impression that 
the latter would be a useful and warm food for cattle. A 
small quantity of the sweepings (which, as w ill be seen here¬ 
after, consisted of a very varied admixture) wasgiven in troughs 
to the sheep on turnips; some w as also given to the farm 
