. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. 202 THE COTTAGE GAEDENER. June 2-t. without a shell. They cau never be hatched, although fruitful, because they will not hear pressure. This fault often proceeds from the female not possessing the secretory organs which sliould i'lu'nish the calcareous earth that forms the shell; then there is no remedy. Sometimes it may he caused by a simple organic obsU-uction occasioned by fat or inflammaliou, and in this case the hiril may he cured by changing the nature of its food. In all cases we should advise amateurs not to take tliis trouble, except for v
. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. 202 THE COTTAGE GAEDENER. June 2-t. without a shell. They cau never be hatched, although fruitful, because they will not hear pressure. This fault often proceeds from the female not possessing the secretory organs which sliould i'lu'nish the calcareous earth that forms the shell; then there is no remedy. Sometimes it may he caused by a simple organic obsU-uction occasioned by fat or inflammaliou, and in this case the hiril may he cured by changing the nature of its food. In all cases we should advise amateurs not to take tliis trouble, except for valuable animals, as the success is always doubtful. We also meet with couples that constantly have barren eggs. The difficulty is to discover which of the two is bai'ren. To do this, we must couple theni with two others, and immediately remove the one in whose nest â we find un- fruitful eggs at the first laying. However, wo must not he surprised if hotli should produce young ones, for this defect may he brought on by an incompatibility of organisation altogether If several pahs of pigeons should be attacked with this complaint in a dovecote or dove-house, we must not hasten to uncouple them, for in all probability it might be the result of bad food, or some other cause besides that of sterility; for example, to produce this effect, it is only necessary to have two or three smelter pigeons in a pigeon-house of fifty pah's. In these two cases, nothing is more easy than to remedy these inconveniences, eitlier by changing the ipiality of their food, or by removing the disturbers. A pigeon may jjreserve its fruitfulness to the age of ten, or twelve, or even fourteen years ; but it generally loses it sooner. The females especially do not become exhausted so soon as the males, and when we perceive that as they advance in age, they lay a greater number of barren eggs, we must take away their old male, and give them a young one, in order to procure again a good producti
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