. All about country life : being a dictionary of rural avocations, and of knowledge necessary to the management of the farm, the stable, the stockyard, and a gentleman's out of town residence and property. Agriculture; Country life. ALL ABOUT COUNTRY LIFE. M7 Qamekeeper. sporting circles, on account of their pugnacious disposition. A true game. cock fears no enemy, and will attack anythint; and evcr}'thing. The flesh of game fowls is of exquisite flavour, and is the best of all kinds of chiclcen flesh for table uses. The hens are not pro- lific layers. GAMEKEEPER. A man employed to preserve ga
. All about country life : being a dictionary of rural avocations, and of knowledge necessary to the management of the farm, the stable, the stockyard, and a gentleman's out of town residence and property. Agriculture; Country life. ALL ABOUT COUNTRY LIFE. M7 Qamekeeper. sporting circles, on account of their pugnacious disposition. A true game. cock fears no enemy, and will attack anythint; and evcr}'thing. The flesh of game fowls is of exquisite flavour, and is the best of all kinds of chiclcen flesh for table uses. The hens are not pro- lific layers. GAMEKEEPER. A man employed to preserve game and look after preserves. It is a part of his duty to watch for poachers, often at night, and to detect them, if pos- sible, in their predatory pursuits. GAPES. A disease to which fowls are liable, often attended with fatal consequences, caused by a worm in the windpipe, which causes inflammation, leading to sufi'ocation. Tiie following remedies have been devised : Introducing oiled stiff-end of a feather into the throat, and turning it round—the worms fre- quently adhere to the feather, or are dislodged and expelled by the birds themselves in sneezing; mixing wine or P^psom salts with the food; stripping a feather, except half an inch at the top, dipping this in spirits of turpen- tine, and pressing the feather through the opening of the windpipe ; giving a little spirits of turpentine in rice, and afterwards salt and water to drink ; one grain of calomel made up into a bread pill, and afterwards sulphur mixed with ginger. GARDEN. An enclosed piece of ground appro- Garden. priatcd to the production cither of flowers, fruits, or vegetables, and often to all three. Few persons have any choice respecting the size and situation of their gardens. They have a certain limited space, and can only make the best of it. The aspect may be towards any point of the compass, and the shape after no known pattern. A south as- pect is always to be preferred, and a light, rich loam for the
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